A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in BitDefender Engine. This affects some unknown functionality of the component rar.xmd Parser. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An issue was discovered in Bitdefender Engines before 7.76675. A vulnerability has been discovered in the rar.xmd parser that results from a lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in a read past the end of an allocated buffer. Paired with other vulnerabilities, this can result in denial-of-service. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.

The weakness was presented 05/24/2019. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2018-18059 since 10/08/2018. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 7.76675 eliminates this vulnerability.

See VDB-135544 and VDB-135542 for similar entries. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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