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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1037-1 catdoc -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

24 Jul 2017

Affected Packages:

catdoc

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 867717.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-11110.

More information:

A heap-based buffer underflow flaw was discovered in catdoc, a text extractor for MS-Office files, which may lead to denial of service (application crash) or have unspecified other impact, if a specially crafted file is processed.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 0.94.4-1.1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your catdoc packages.

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