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Fedora 27: FEDORA-2017-8489b17872 Critical: tnef Integer Underflow

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Calendar Grey October 17, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 28 tnef upgrade to 1.4.16 fixes CVE-2018-xxxx, eliminating severe buffer overflow vulnerability.
Update to 1.4.15

Summary

This application provides a way to unpack Microsoft MS-TNEF MIME attachments.

It operates like tar in order to unpack files of type "application/ms-tnef",

which may have been placed into the MS-TNEF attachment instead of being

attached separately.

Such files may have attachment names similar to WINMAIL.DAT

Update to 1.4.15. Fixes CVE-2017-8911

[ 1 ] Bug #1427435 - CVE-2017-6307 CVE-2017-6308 CVE-2017-6309 CVE-2017-6310 tnef: Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 1.4.13 [epel-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1427435

[ 2 ] Bug #1451259 - CVE-2017-8911 tnef: Integer underflow in unicode_to_utf8 [epel-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451259

[ 3 ] Bug #1451258 - CVE-2017-8911 tnef: Integer underflow in unicode_to_utf8 [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451258

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

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 1.4.15
Release: 1.fc27
Summary: Extract files from email attachments like WINMAIL.DAT

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