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Debian: DSA-4260-1 Moderate: Libmspack Denial Of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey August 2, 2018
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Enhance the libmspack library to mitigate various security flaws that may result in system crashes or unauthorized remote code execution on Debian platforms.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libsmpack, a library used to handle Microsoft compression formats
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security advisory moderate denial of service application crash libmspack

Summary

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.5-1+deb9u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libmspack packages.

For the detailed security status of libmspack please refer to its
security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/libmspack

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/



Package: libmspack
CVE ID: CVE-2018-14679 CVE-2018-14680 CVE-2018-14681 CVE-2018-14682

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security advisory moderate denial of service application crash libmspack

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