[Secure-testing-team] Bug#876001: libwpd: CVE-2017-14226

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: libwpd
Version: 0.10.1-5
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://sourceforge.net/p/libwpd/tickets/14/

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for libwpd.

CVE-2017-14226[0]:
| WP1StylesListener.cpp, WP5StylesListener.cpp, and
| WP42StylesListener.cpp in libwpd 0.10.1 mishandle iterators, which
| allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer
| over-read in the WPXTableList class in WPXTable.cpp). This
| vulnerability can be triggered in LibreOffice before 5.3.7. It may lead
| to suffering a remote attack against a LibreOffice application.

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-2017-14226
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14226
[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/libwpd/tickets/14/
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1489337
[3] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=dd89afa6ee8166b69e7a1e86f22616ca8fc122c9
[4] https://sourceforge.net/p/libwpd/code/ci/0329a9c57f9b3b0efa0f09a5235dfd90236803a5/
[5] https://sourceforge.net/p/libwpd/code/ci/f40827b3eae260ce657c67d9fecc855b09dea3c3/
[6] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112269

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore