Executive Summary

Summary
Title libmwaw security update
Informations
Name DSA-3875 First vendor Publication 2017-06-09
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2017-06-09
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

It was discovered that a buffer overflow in libmwaw, a library to open old Mac text documents might result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed document is opened.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.1-2+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.9-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libmwaw packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3875

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-09-18 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-1048.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-01 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-2315-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-27 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-2d8a1226d1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-17 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-3229e88ea3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-807.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-10 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-1821-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-16 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-3319-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-12 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3875.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-06-13 13:25:21
  • Multiple Updates
2017-06-12 17:25:29
  • Multiple Updates
2017-06-09 21:20:20
  • First insertion