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Gentoo: GLSA-201903-20 Normal: cabextract Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey March 27, 2019
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Several security flaws identified in cabextract and libmspack may result in Denial of Service. Users are advised to perform an upgrade.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in cabextract and libmspack, the worst of which could result in a Denial of Service.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in cabextract and libmspack. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo cabextract normal severity libmspack

Resolution

All cabextract users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-arch/cabextract-1.8"
All libmspack users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/libmspack-0.8_alpha"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2018-14679 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14679 [ 2 ] CVE-2018-14680 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14680 [ 3 ] CVE-2018-14681 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14681 [ 4 ] CVE-2018-14682 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14682 [ 5 ] CVE-2018-18584 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18584 [ 6 ] CVE-2018-18585 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18585 [ 7 ] CVE-2018-18586 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18586

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-20
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: cabextract, libmspack: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: March 28, 2019
Bugs: #662874, #669280
ID: 201903-20

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo cabextract normal severity libmspack

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in cabextract and libmspack, the worst of which could result in a Denial of Service.

Background

cabextract is free software for extracting Microsoft cabinet files. libmspack is a portable library for some loosely related Microsoft compression formats

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-arch/cabextract < 1.8 >= 1.8 2 dev-libs/libmspack < 0.8_alpha >= 0.8_alpha ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 affected packages

Impact

===== Please review the referenced CVE's for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.