Bug 1272993 (CVE-2015-4588)
| Summary: | CVE-2015-4588 libwmf: heap overflow within the RLE decoding of embedded BMP images | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Stefan Cornelius <scorneli> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | caolanm |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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It was discovered that libwmf did not correctly process certain WMF (Windows Metafiles) with embedded BMP images. By tricking a victim into opening a specially crafted WMF file in an application using libwmf, a remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.
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| Last Closed: | 2015-10-21 09:31:50 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 1227245 | ||
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Description
Stefan Cornelius
2015-10-19 11:38:21 UTC
The patch for this issue can be found in bug 1227243, comment 7. 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 |