Debian Security Advisory

DLA-840-1 libplist -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

28 Feb 2017

Affected Packages:

libplist

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 854000.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-5834, CVE-2017-5835.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libplist, a library for reading and writing the Apple binary and XML property lists format. A maliciously crafted plist file could cause an application to crash by triggering a heap-based buffer overflow and memory allocation error in the plist_from_bin function.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.8-1+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libplist packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS