Bug 1649414 (CVE-2018-19208)

Summary:	CVE-2018-19208 libwpd: NULL pointer dereference in the function WP6ContentListener::defineTable in WP6ContentListener.cpp
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	caillon+fedoraproject, caolanm, dtardon, john.j5live, mbarnes, rhughes, rstrode, sandmann
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Bug Depends On:	1644276, 1649415, 1649416, 1650535
Bug Blocks:	1649417

Description Laura Pardo 2018-11-13 15:12:45 UTC

In libwpd 0.10.2, there is a NULL pointer dereference in the function WP6ContentListener::defineTable in WP6ContentListener.cpp that will lead to a denial of service attack. This is related to WPXTable.h. 


References: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643752 
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2018-19208

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-11-13 15:13:26 UTC

Created libwpd tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1649415]

Comment 4 Stefan Cornelius 2018-11-16 12:27:43 UTC

Statement:

This issue affects the versions of libwpd as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Extended Life Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now in Maintenance Support 2 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having a security impact of Low, and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:18:36 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2019:2126 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2126

Comment 7 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-08-06 13:20:41 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-19208