Bug 1198541 - libmspack: hangs on a crafted CAB file
Summary: libmspack: hangs on a crafted CAB file
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1198544
Blocks: 1177010
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-03-04 10:45 UTC by Siddharth Sharma
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:29 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:39:26 UTC
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Description Siddharth Sharma 2015-03-04 10:45:09 UTC
 A flaw was found in libmspack which makes libmspack hang going into infinite 
 loop. Attacker has to convince user to open malicious CAB file to execute  
 attack using this as attack vector, hence impact of this flaw is very low
 also attacker has to create malicious CAB file increasing complexity of such
 attack.

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

Comment 1 Siddharth Sharma 2015-03-04 10:48:12 UTC
Created libmspack tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1198544]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:39:26 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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