Bug 1169665 (CVE-2014-8123)

Summary:	CVE-2014-8123 antiword: buffer overflow of atPPSlist[].szName[]
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	adrian, carnil, jieyong.ma
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1169666, 1169667, 1169668
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Description Murray McAllister 2014-12-02 06:59:07 UTC

Fabian Keil discovered a buffer overflow in antiword, a Microsoft Word to ASCII/PostScript converter. A specially-crafted document could cause antiword to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code.

Patch:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/att-870/antiword-bGetPPS-Prevent-buffer-overflow-of-atPPSlist-_szName.diff

It was noted that this patch will not be included in an official release soon. As such, the patch should be applied.

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Fabian Keil for reporting this issue.

Reference:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/870

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-12-02 07:00:42 UTC

Created antiword tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1169666]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1169667]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1169668]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2014-12-12 04:00:15 UTC

antiword-0.37-17.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2014-12-13 09:54:45 UTC

antiword-0.37-17.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2014-12-13 09:57:52 UTC

antiword-0.37-17.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2014-12-19 01:00:24 UTC

antiword-0.37-17.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2014-12-19 01:01:14 UTC

antiword-0.37-17.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:36:51 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.