NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libwpd  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-LIBWPD-301942
  • published2 Dec 2018
  • disclosed12 Nov 2018

Introduced: 12 Nov 2018

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

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libwpd package and not the libwpd package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.