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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1192-1 libofx -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

26 Nov 2017

Affected Packages:

libofx

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-2816, CVE-2017-14731.

More information:

• CVE-2017-2816

  An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the tag parsing functionality of LibOFX 0.9.11. A specially crafted OFX file can cause a write out of bounds resulting in a buffer overflow on the stack. An attacker can construct a malicious OFX file to trigger this vulnerability.

• CVE-2017-14731

  ofx_proc_file in ofx_preproc.cpp allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted file

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1:0.9.4-2.1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libofx packages.

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