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Fedora 26: FEDORA-2017-982bfabc4e Critical: Libmspack Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 23, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Patch implementing mitigation for vulnerabilities CVE-2017-6419 and CVE-2017-11423 in libmspack on Fedora 26 enhances security protocols for file processing.
Security fix for CVE-2017-6419 and CVE-2017-11423

Summary

The purpose of libmspack is to provide both compression and decompression of

some loosely related file formats used by Microsoft.

Security fix for CVE-2017-6419 and CVE-2017-11423

[ 1 ] Bug #1483909 - CVE-2017-6419 libmspack, clamav: heap-based buffer overflow in mspack/lzxd.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1483909

[ 2 ] Bug #1472776 - CVE-2017-11423 libmspack, clamav: Stack-based buffer over-read in cabd_read_string function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1472776

su -c 'dnf upgrade libmspack' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 0.6
Release: 0.1.alpha.fc26
Summary: Library for CAB and related files compression and decompression

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