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openSUSE Leap 42.3: Important Update 2017:2943-1 for libwpd DoS

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Calendar Grey November 7, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This patch for libwpd resolves a significant bug in Fedora. It swiftly resolves potential data breach threats!
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for libwpd fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2017-14226: WP1StylesListener.cpp, WP5StylesListener.cpp, and

WP42StylesListener.cpp in libwpd 0.10.1 mishandle iterators, which

allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer

over-read in the WPXTableList class in WPXTable.cpp). This vulnerability

can be triggered in LibreOffice before 5.3.7. It may lead to suffering a

remote attack against a LibreOffice application. (bnc#1058025)

Bugfixes:

- Fix various crashes, leaks and hangs when reading damaged files found by

oss-fuzz.

- Fix crash when NULL is passed as input stream.

- Use symbol visibility on Linux. The library only exports public

functions now.

- Avoid infinite loop. (libwpd#3)

- Remove bashism. (libwpd#5)

- Fix various crashes and hangs when reading broken files found with the

help of american-fuzzy-lop.

- Make --help output of all command line...

Read the Full Advisory

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-1247=1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-1247=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

libwpd-devel-doc-0.10.2-8.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

libwpd-0_10-10-0.10.2-8.1

libwpd-0_10-10-debuginfo-0.10.2-8.1

libwpd-debugsource-0.10.2-8.1

libwpd-devel-0.10.2-8.1

libwpd-tools-0.10.2-8.1

libwpd-tools-debuginfo-0.10.2-8.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

libwpd-0_10-10-0.10.2-5.3.1

libwpd-0_10-10-debuginfo-0.10.2-5.3.1

libwpd-debugsource-0.10.2-5.3.1

libwpd-devel-0.10.2-5.3.1

libwpd-tools-0.10.2-5.3.1

libwpd-tools-debuginfo-0.10.2-5.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (noarch):

libwpd-devel-doc-0.10.2-5.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14226.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1058025

Severity
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:2943-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 openSUSE Leap 42.2 .

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