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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-839-1 tnef -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

27 Feb 2017

Affected Packages:

tnef

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-6307, CVE-2017-6308, CVE-2017-6309, CVE-2017-6310.

More information:

• CVE-2017-6307

  An issue was discovered in tnef before 1.4.13. Two OOB Writes have been identified in src/mapi_attr.c:mapi_attr_read(). These might lead to invalid read and write operations, controlled by an attacker.

• CVE-2017-6308

  An issue was discovered in tnef before 1.4.13. Several Integer Overflows, which can lead to Heap Overflows, have been identified in the functions that wrap memory allocation.

• CVE-2017-6309

  An issue was discovered in tnef before 1.4.13. Two type confusions have been identified in the parse_file() function. These might lead to invalid read and write operations, controlled by an attacker.

• CVE-2017-6310

  An issue was discovered in tnef before 1.4.13. Four type confusions have been identified in the file_add_mapi_attrs() function. These might lead to invalid read and write operations, controlled by an attacker.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.9-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your tnef packages.

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