Debian 7 Wheezy DLA-1163-1 Critical: apr-util Out-Of-Bounds Access
debian lts
November 6, 2017
It was discovered that there was an out-of-bounds read access in apr-util, a support/portability library used by many applications
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Summary
A local user with write access to the database could have made a process
using these functions crash and thus cause a denial-of-service.
For Debian 7 "Wheezy", this issue has been fixed in apr-util version
1.4.1-3+deb7u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your apr-util packages.
Regards,
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Package: apr-util
Version: 1.4.1-3+deb7u1
CVE ID: CVE-2017-12618
Debian Bug: #879996
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