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Fedora 28 libmspack Security Update: Critical Out-of-Bounds Issues

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Calendar Grey November 13, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest libmspack update for Fedora 28 resolves several security vulnerabilities, particularly out-of-bounds write issues. Be sure to update your system!
Latest stable releases of libmspack and cabextract, includes security fixes for CVE-2018-14680, CVE-2018-14681, CVE-2018-14682, CVE-2018-18584, CVE-2018-18585

Summary

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

some loosely related file formats used by Microsoft.

Latest stable releases of libmspack and cabextract, includes security fixes for

CVE-2018-14680, CVE-2018-14681, CVE-2018-14682, CVE-2018-18584, CVE-2018-18585

* Tue Nov 6 2018 Rex Dieter - 0.9.1-0.1.alpha

- 0.9.1alpha

- libmspack-0.8-0.1.alpha corrupts extracted cab files (#1647033)

- examples no longer installed (by default)

* Tue Oct 30 2018 Rex Dieter - 0.8-0.1.alpha

- 0.8alpha

- use %make_build %make_install %ldconfig_scriptlets %license

- devel: use %{?_isa} to tighten dep on main pkg

- drop deprecated Group: tag

- %files: tighten to include library soname

* Wed Aug 1 2018 Richard W.M. Jones - 0.7-0.1.alpha

- New upstream version 0.7alpha.

- No tarball was uploaded so temporarily use tarball from github.

- Fixes CVE-2018-14679 libmspack: off-by-one error in the CHM PMGI/PMGL

chunk number validity checks

* Fri Jul 13 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.6-0.3.alpha

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1644215 - CVE-2018-18585 libmspack: chmd_read_headers() fails to reject filenames containing NULL bytes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1644215

[ 2 ] Bug #1644214 - CVE-2018-18584 libmspack: Out-of-bounds write in mspack/cab.h

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1644214

[ 3 ] Bug #1610941 - CVE-2018-14682 libmspack: off-by-one error in the TOLOWER() macro for CHM decompression

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1610941

[ 4 ] Bug #1610934 - CVE-2018-14680 libmspack: off-by-one error in the CHM chunk number validity checks

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1610934

[ 5 ] Bug #1610896 - CVE-2018-14681 libmspack: out-of-bounds write in kwajd_read_headers in mspack/kwajd.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1610896

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-cb337fb199' 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

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 0.9.1
Release: 0.1.alpha.fc28
Summary: Library for CAB and related files compression and decompression

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