Out-of-Bounds Affecting libmwaw package, versions <0.3.9-2
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-LIBMWAW-5684945
- published5 Jun 2017
- disclosed5 Jun 2017
Introduced: 5 Jun 2017
CVE-2017-9433 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:13 libmwaw to version 0.3.9-2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libmwaw package and not the libmwaw package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.
Document Liberation Project libmwaw before 2017-04-08 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the MsWrd1Parser::readFootnoteCorrespondance function in lib/MsWrd1Parser.cxx.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9433
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3875
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=1037
- https://sourceforge.net/p/libmwaw/libmwaw/ci/68b3b74569881248bfb6cbb4266177cc253b292f/
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-9433