Advisories ยป MGASA-2017-0083

Updated tnef packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 25 Mar 2017
Modification date: 25 Mar 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2017-6307 , CVE-2017-6308 , CVE-2017-6309 , CVE-2017-6310

Description

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-2017-6307)

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-2017-6308)

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-2017-6309)

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.
(CVE-2017-6310)

References

SRPMS

5/core