Bug 1235665 – CVE-2015-4695 libwmf: heap buffer overread in meta.h

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Bug 1235665 - (CVE-2015-4695) CVE-2015-4695 libwmf: heap buffer overread in meta.h

Summary:	CVE-2015-4695 libwmf: heap buffer overread in meta.h

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2015-4695

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1227428 1235671 1239161 1239162
Blocks:	1227245
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Reported:	2015-06-25 09:11 EDT by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified:	2016-01-22 07:32 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	It was discovered that libwmf did not properly process certain WMF files. By tricking a victim into opening a specially crafted WMF file in an application using libwmf, a remote attacker could possibly exploit this flaw to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.
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Last Closed:	2015-10-21 05:31:22 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:1917	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: libwmf security update	2015-10-20 16:10:07 EDT

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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-06-25 09:11:06 EDT

A read from invalid address was reported in libwmf in couple of places in meta.h file
Originally reported in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=784205
Patch is attached to BZ 1227243: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1042306

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-06-25 09:17:17 EDT

Created libwmf tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1235671]

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2015-10-20 12:10:59 EDT

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

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