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1 vulnerability found for libewf by libyal

CVE-2026-111159 (GCVE-0-2026-111159)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-15 18:57
Modified
2026-10-26 13:57
CWE
Summary
libewf through 20260924 contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability in libewf_lef_extended_attribute_read_data() because UTF-16 name and value sizes are validated before being doubled. Attackers can supply a crafted .L01/.Lx01 file with oversized 'ea' metadata counts to crash the application or leak uninitialized heap memory through extended attributes.
Impacted products
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