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Bug 571820 - <app-text/catdoc-0.95: invalid memory access and segmentation fault
Summary: <app-text/catdoc-0.95: invalid memory access and segmentation fault
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug....
Whiteboard: B3 [noglsa]
Keywords:
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2016-01-14 09:42 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2016-11-27 11:10 UTC (History)
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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2016-01-14 09:42:47 UTC 
From ${URL} :

A vulnerability was found in the way the catdoc parses certain word documents. A specially crafted 
file could cause an attempt to access an invalid pointer. This will cause catdoc to crash.

Original bug report with reproducer attached:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=810883


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 Felix Janda 2016-09-04 12:22:03 UTC 
The debian patch has been applied to catdoc-0.95. I cannot reproduce
any of the segfaults with that version.
Comment 2 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-09-12 23:53:42 UTC 
@ Felix, thank you for your contribution!


@ Arches,

please test and mark stable: =app-text/catdoc-0.95

Targeted stable KEYWORDS: amd64 x86
Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2016-09-13 11:37:20 UTC 
amd64 stable
Comment 4 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2016-09-29 08:41:35 UTC 
x86 stable.

Maintainer(s), please cleanup.
Security, please add it to the existing request, or file a new one.
Comment 5 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-11-11 12:17:52 UTC 
Re-designating again.  Just a crash with no execution of code.  

@maintainer(s), please clean the vulnerable version so we can close this.
Comment 6 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-11-20 06:04:57 UTC 
Please cleanup so we can close this.