Bug 2203212 (CVE-2023-31979)

Summary:	CVE-2023-31979 catdoc: buffer overflow in process_file() in src/reader.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2023-05-11 14:36:03 UTC

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

Reference:
https://github.com/petewarden/catdoc/issues/9

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2023-05-11 14:36:21 UTC

Created catdoc tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2203215]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2203213]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-05-11 19:12:55 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.