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Debian 8: DLA-1501-1 Critical: Libextractor Out-of-Bounds Read Issue

debian lts
Calendar Grey September 11, 2018
Dist Debian Esm H88
A critical memory exposure vulnerability in libextractor on Debian 8 has been resolved in the newest patch. Update today!
It was discovered that there was an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in libextractor, a library to extract meta-data from files of arbitrary type
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security advisory critical debian bug fix libextractor out-of-bounds meta-data extraction

Summary

We recommend that you upgrade your libextractor packages.


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Package: libextractor
Version: 1:1.3-2+deb8u3
CVE ID: CVE-2018-16430
Debian Bug: #907987

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