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SUSE: 2017:2931-1 Important: libwpd Remote Attack Advisory

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Calendar Grey November 6, 2017
Dist Suse Esm H88
A recent patch for libwpd resolves critical vulnerabilities; it features enhancements to thwart potential remote exploits and mitigate crash risks.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

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)

References

#1058025

Cross- CVE-2017-14226

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1058025

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:2931-1
Rating: important

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