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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3875-1 libmwaw -- security update

Date Reported:

09 Jun 2017

Affected Packages:

libmwaw

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-9433.

More information:

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.