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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-962-1 tnef -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

29 May 2017

Affected Packages:

tnef

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-8911.

More information:

• CVE-2017-8911

  An integer underflow has been identified in the unicode_to_utf8() function in tnef 1.4.14. This might lead to invalid write operations, controlled by an attacker.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.9-1+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your tnef packages.

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