Bug 906111 (CVE-2023-31979)

Summary:	app-text/catdoc: multiple vulnerabilities
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	John Helmert III <ajak>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	tex
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	?? [upstream]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description John Helmert III archtester

2023-05-11 04:40:35 UTC

CVE-2023-31979 (https://github.com/petewarden/catdoc/issues/9):

Catdoc v0.95 was discovered to contain a global buffer overflow via the function process_file at /src/reader.c.

Almost every single open issue is some kind of security issue, should
we last rite? Last touched by upstream in 2011.

https://github.com/petewarden/catdoc/issues