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Debian: DSA-5231-1 Urgent: Libxml2 Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey February 9, 2015
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Important notice regarding unrtf from Debian concerning potential execution vulnerabilities and service disruption problems.
Michal Zalewski and Hanno Boeck discovered several vulnerabilities in unrtf, a RTF to other formats converter, leading to a denial of service (application crash) or, potentially, t...
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Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.21.5-3~deb7u1. This update is based on a new upstream version
of unrtf including additional bug fixes, new features and incompatible
changes (especially PostScript support is dropped).

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie) and the unstable
distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.21.5-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your unrtf packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: unrtf
CVE ID: CVE-2014-9274 CVE-2014-9275

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