[Secure-testing-team] Bug#880016: libextractor: CVE-2017-15922

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: libextractor
Version: 1:1.6-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-10/msg00008.html

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for libextractor.

CVE-2017-15922[0]:
| In GNU Libextractor 1.4, there is an out-of-bounds read in the
| EXTRACTOR_dvi_extract_method function in plugins/dvi_extractor.c.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15922
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15922
[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-10/msg00008.html

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore