Bug 1649414 (CVE-2018-19208) - CVE-2018-19208 libwpd: NULL pointer dereference in the function WP6ContentListener::defineTable in WP6ContentListener.cpp
Summary: CVE-2018-19208 libwpd: NULL pointer dereference in the function WP6ContentLis...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-19208
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1644276 1649415 1649416 1650535
Blocks: 1649417
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-11-13 15:12 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2021-02-16 22:47 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-08-06 13:20:41 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:2126 0 None None None 2019-08-06 12:18:37 UTC

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


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