Bug 1178867 (CVE-2014-9556) - CVE-2014-9556 libmspack: buffer overflow causing denial of service in qtmd_decompress()
Summary: CVE-2014-9556 libmspack: buffer overflow causing denial of service in qtmd_de...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2014-9556
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1179822 1179823
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-01-05 15:02 UTC by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:25 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:37:20 UTC
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-05 15:02:28 UTC
It was reported [1] that a binary using libmspack will hang when processing a crafted .CAB file.
Upstream patch that fixes this:
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/libmspack.git/tree/debian/patches/qtmd-fix-frame_end-overflow.patch

CVE requested at: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/4

[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=773041

Comment 1 Dan Horák 2015-01-05 15:20:10 UTC
(In reply to Vasyl Kaigorodov from comment #0)
> It was reported [1] that a binary using libmspack will hang when processing
> a crafted .CAB file.
> Upstream patch that fixes this:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/libmspack.git/tree/debian/
> patches/qtmd-fix-frame_end-overflow.patch

it is a local Debian patch, not upstream. Is upstream aware of the problem?

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2015-01-07 15:42:28 UTC
This was assigned CVE-2014-9556:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/85

Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2015-01-07 15:42:52 UTC
Created libmspack tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1179822]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1179823]

Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2015-01-07 15:45:23 UTC
(In reply to Dan Horák from comment #1)
> (In reply to Vasyl Kaigorodov from comment #0)
> > It was reported [1] that a binary using libmspack will hang when processing
> > a crafted .CAB file.
> > Upstream patch that fixes this:
> > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/libmspack.git/tree/debian/
> > patches/qtmd-fix-frame_end-overflow.patch
> 
> it is a local Debian patch, not upstream. Is upstream aware of the problem?

Unknown; this was reported to oss-sec by Debian.  Looking at their bug report it seems that upstream clamav is aware, but I can't tell if they've let upstream libmspack know about it.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2015-03-13 17:00:38 UTC
libmspack-0.5-0.1.alpha.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2015-03-13 17:02:14 UTC
libmspack-0.5-0.1.alpha.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2015-03-13 17:14:37 UTC
libmspack-0.5-0.1.alpha.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2015-03-25 20:04:28 UTC
libmspack-0.5-0.1.alpha.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 9 Fedora Update System 2015-03-25 20:04:59 UTC
libmspack-0.5-0.1.alpha.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:37:20 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.


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