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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1100-1 (wv2)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to wv2 announced via advisory DSA 1100-1. A boundary checking error has been discovered in wv2, a library for accessing Microsoft Word documents, which can lead to an integer overflow induced by processing word files. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain wv2 packages.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.2-1sarge1 For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your libwv packages. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201100-1

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