Bug 1235669 (CVE-2015-4696)
Summary: | CVE-2015-4696 libwmf: use-after-free flaw in meta.h | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | caolanm, jrusnack |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: |
It was discovered that libwmf did not properly process certain WMF files. By tricking a victim into opening a specially crafted WMF file in an application using libwmf, a remote attacker could possibly exploit this flaw to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.
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Last Closed: | 2015-10-21 09:31:37 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 1227428, 1235671, 1239161, 1239162 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 1227245 |
Description
Vasyl Kaigorodov
2015-06-25 13:15:40 UTC
Created libwmf tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1235671] This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2015:1917 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1917.html |