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Debian 8: DLA-1460-1 Critical: Libmspack Denial of Service Risks

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2018
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Enhance libmspack to mitigate critical vulnerabilities from specially designed Microsoft files, which could result in possible Denial of Service incidents.
It was discovered that there were several vulnerabilities in libsmpack, a library used to handle Microsoft compression formats
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security advisory denial of service remote code execution debian application crash libmspack

Summary

For Debian 8 "Jessie", this issue has been fixed in libmspack
version 0.5-1+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libmspack packages.


Regards,

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Package: libmspack
Version: 0.5-1+deb8u2
CVE ID: CVE-2018-14681 CVE-2018-14682 CVE-2018-14679 CVE-2018-14680

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security advisory denial of service remote code execution debian application crash libmspack

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