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Mageia 6: MGASA-2019-0013 Moderate: Libextractor Memory Disclosure

mageia
Calendar Grey January 5, 2019
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Revised libextractor distributions tackle vulnerabilities causing potential denial of service and leakage of memory information.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libextractor which may lead to denial of service or memory disclosure if a malformed OLE file is processed (CVE-2018-20430, CVE-2018-2043...

Summary

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libextractor which may lead to denial of service or memory disclosure if a malformed OLE file is processed (CVE-2018-20430, CVE-2018-20431).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24093

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2018/msg00294.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20430

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20431

Resolution

SRPMS

- 6/core/libextractor-1.7-1.1.mga6

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Publication date: 05 Jan 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0013.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-20430, CVE-2018-20431

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