Re: CVE-2026-100310: GNU libextractor < 1.16 Privilege Escalation via LIBEXTRACTOR_PREFIX
Simon McVittie questions whether libextractor CVE-2026-100310 is a realistic setuid privilege escalation.
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Simon McVittie questions whether libextractor CVE-2026-100310 is a realistic setuid privilege escalation.
GNU libextractor before 1.16 can be locally escalated via the LIBEXTRACTOR_PREFIX search path.
GNU libextractor before 1.15 has a stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-2026-91752) in its OLE2 parser, triggerable via crafted files.

Canadian Cyber Centre advisory AV26-923 flags a stack overflow in GNU libextractor before v1.15 via OLE2 files.
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