CVE catalog
CVE-2018-5345
gcab: CVE-2018-5345
- Severity
- High · CVSS 7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 2.19% · Oct 25, 2026
A stack-based buffer overflow within GNOME gcab through 0.7.4 can be exploited by malicious attackers to cause a crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code via a crafted .cab file.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | gcab | sid | 1.6-4 | fixed |
| Debian | gcab | forky | 1.6-4 | fixed |
| Debian | gcab | trixie | 1.6-1 | fixed |
| Debian | gcab | bookworm | 1.5-1 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | gcab | 16.04 | 0.6-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gcab | 16.04 | 0.6-1ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gcab | 16.04 | 0.7-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gcab | 16.04 | 0.7-1ubuntu0.1 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | gcab | 16.04 | 0.6-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gcab | 16.04 | 0.6-1ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gcab | 16.04 | 0.7-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gcab | 16.04 | 0.7-1ubuntu0.1 | fixed |
| Opensuse | gcab | tumbleweed | 1.4-2.9 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | gcab | source | sid | 0.7-7 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [887776] |
| Debian | gcab | source | forky | 0.7-7 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [887776] |
| Debian | gcab | source | trixie | 0.7-7 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [887776] |
| Debian | gcab | source | bookworm | 0.7-7 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [887776] |
| Ubuntu | gcab | deb | 16.04 | 0.7-1ubuntu0.1 | Not reported | UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5345 | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | gcab | deb | 16.04 | 0.7-1ubuntu0.1 | Not reported | USN-3546-1 | Not reported |
| Opensuse | gcab | rpm | tumbleweed | 1.4-2.9 | Not reported | OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10776-1 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
[openSUSE Tumbleweed]
- [gcab-devel]Unknown
Source package: [gcab]
Details (1)
1.6-2.1· x86_64 · tumbleweedUnknown · Fixed:
1.4-2.9Version impact unknown
dsa · gcab · opensuse · tumbleweed
- [gcab-lang]Unknown
Source package: [gcab]
Details (1)
1.6-2.1· noarch · tumbleweedUnknown · Fixed:
1.4-2.9Version impact unknown
dsa · gcab · opensuse · tumbleweed
- [libgcab-1_0-0]Unknown
Source package: [gcab]
Details (1)
1.6-2.1· x86_64 · tumbleweedUnknown · Fixed:
1.4-2.9Version impact unknown
dsa · gcab · opensuse · tumbleweed
- [typelib-1_0-GCab-1_0]Unknown
Source package: [gcab]
Details (1)
1.6-2.1· x86_64 · tumbleweedUnknown · Fixed:
1.4-2.9Version impact unknown
dsa · gcab · opensuse · tumbleweed
- [gcab]Fixed
Source package: [gcab]
Details (1)
1.6-2.1· x86_64 · tumbleweedFixed · Fixed:
1.4-2.9dsa · gcab · opensuse · tumbleweed
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [gcab]Fixed
Details (2)
1.5-1· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · bookworm; dsa · gcab · debian · 12
1.5-1· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · bookworm; dsa · gcab · debian · 12
- [gir1.2-gcab-1.0]Fixed
Source package: [gcab]
Details (2)
1.5-1· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · bookworm; dsa · gcab · debian · 12
1.5-1· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · bookworm; dsa · gcab · debian · 12
- [libgcab-1.0-0]Fixed
Source package: [gcab]
Details (2)
1.5-1· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · bookworm; dsa · gcab · debian · 12
1.5-1· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · bookworm; dsa · gcab · debian · 12
- [libgcab-dev]Fixed
Source package: [gcab]
Details (2)
1.5-1· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · bookworm; dsa · gcab · debian · 12
1.5-1· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · bookworm; dsa · gcab · debian · 12
- [libgcab-doc]Fixed
Source package: [gcab]
Details (2)
1.5-1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · bookworm; dsa · gcab · debian · 12
1.5-1· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · bookworm; dsa · gcab · debian · 12
- [libgcab-tests]Fixed
Source package: [gcab]
Details (2)
1.5-1· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · bookworm; dsa · gcab · debian · 12
1.5-1· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · bookworm; dsa · gcab · debian · 12
[Debian 13 (Trixie)]
- [gcab]Fixed
Source package: [gcab]
Details (2)
1.6-1+b3· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · 13
1.6-1+b3· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · 13
- [gir1.2-gcab-1.0]Fixed
Source package: [gcab]
Details (2)
1.6-1+b3· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · 13
1.6-1+b3· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · 13
- [libgcab-1.0-0]Fixed
Source package: [gcab]
Details (2)
1.6-1+b3· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · 13
1.6-1+b3· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · 13
- [libgcab-dev]Fixed
Source package: [gcab]
Details (2)
1.6-1+b3· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · 13
1.6-1+b3· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · 13
- [libgcab-doc]Fixed
Source package: [gcab]
Details (2)
1.6-1· all · trixieFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · 13
1.6-1· all · trixieFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · 13
- [libgcab-tests]Fixed
Source package: [gcab]
Details (2)
1.6-1+b3· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · 13
1.6-1+b3· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
0.7-7dsa · gcab · debian · 13
Observed:
References
- [https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0350]
- [https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/rhsa-2018_0350.json]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5345]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4095-1]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5345]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3546-1]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10776-1]
- [https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-5345]
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