Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3302-1 libwmf -- security update

Date Reported:
06 Jul 2015
Affected Packages:
libwmf
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-0848, CVE-2015-4588, CVE-2015-4695, CVE-2015-4696.
More information:

Insufficient input sanitising in libwmf, a library to process Windows metafile data, may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed WMF file is opened.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 0.2.8.4-10.3+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 0.2.8.4-10.3+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your libwmf packages.