USN-333-1: libwmf vulnerability

9 August 2006

libwmf vulnerability

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Details

An integer overflow was found in the handling of the MaxRecordSize
field in the WMF header parser. By tricking a user into opening a
specially crafted WMF image file with an application that uses this
library, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with
the user's privileges.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 6.06
  • libwmf0.2-7 - 0.2.8.3-3.1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 5.10
  • libwmf0.2-7 - 0.2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 5.04
  • libwmf0.2-7 - 0.2.8-1.1ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

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