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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2019.0008 [DLA 1616-1] libextractor security update 2 January 2019 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: libextractor Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 8 UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX) Windows Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Remote with User Interaction Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2018-20431 CVE-2018-20430 Original Bulletin: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00015.html Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on platforms other than Debian. It is recommended that administrators running libextractor check for an updated version of the software for their operating system. - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Package : libextractor Version : 1:1.3-2+deb8u4 CVE ID : CVE-2018-20430 CVE-2018-20431 Debian Bug : 917214 917213 Two security issues were discovered in libextractor, a library for extracting meta data from files of arbitrary type. An out-of-bounds read in common/convert.c and a NULL Pointer Dereference in the OLE2 extractor may lead to a denial-of-service (application crash). For Debian 8 "Jessie", these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.3-2+deb8u4. We recommend that you upgrade your libextractor packages. 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