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Debian 7: DLA-1037-1 Critical: Catdoc Buffer Underflow DoS

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Calendar Grey July 24, 2017
Dist Debian Esm H88
Enhance the security of catdoc to resolve a buffer underflow vulnerability that could cause a DoS on Debian Wheezy systems. Critical update required.
A heap-based buffer underflow flaw was discovered in catdoc, a text extractor for MS-Office files, which may lead to denial of service (application crash) or have unspecified other...

Summary

For Debian 7 "Wheezy", these problems have been fixed in version
0.94.4-1.1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your catdoc packages.

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


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Package: catdoc
Version: 0.94.4-1.1+deb7u1
CVE ID: CVE-2017-11110
Debian Bug: 867717

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