NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libwpd-devel package, versions <0:0.10.0-2.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.49% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBWPDDEVEL-4923345
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed28 Oct 2018

Introduced: 28 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-19208  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 libwpd-devel to version 0:0.10.0-2.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:2126.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libwpd-devel package and not the libwpd-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

In libwpd 0.10.2, there is a NULL pointer dereference in the function WP6ContentListener::defineTable in WP6ContentListener.cpp that will lead to a denial of service attack. This is related to WPXTable.h.

CVSS Base Scores

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