Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-007 - Michal Zalewski reported an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability in unrtf. Processing a malformed RTF file could lead to a segfault while accessing a pointer that may be under the attacker's control. This would lead to a denial of service or, potentially, the execution of arbitrary code. Hanno Bck also reported a number of other crashes in unrtf.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:007
https://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : unrtf
Date : January 8, 2015
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:
Updated unrtf package fixes security vulnerabilities:
Michal Zalewski reported an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability
in unrtf. Processing a malformed RTF file could lead to a segfault
while accessing a pointer that may be under the attacker's control.
This would lead to a denial of service (application crash) or,
potentially, the execution of arbitrary code (CVE-2014-9274).
Hanno Bck also reported a number of other crashes in unrtf
(CVE-2014-9275).
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References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9274
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9275
https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0533.html
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
6fda11c9c34423ee135149f606656f4c mbs1/x86_64/unrtf-0.21.6-1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
cac07ffe23739bbe321364d26a2ca59a mbs1/SRPMS/unrtf-0.21.6-1.mbs1.src.rpm
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