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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3917-1 catdoc -- security update

Date Reported:

23 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 the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.94.4-1.1+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1:0.94.3~git20160113.dbc9ec6+dfsg-1+deb9u1.

For the testing distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 1:0.95-3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:0.95-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your catdoc packages.