Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201711-16

Severity: Low
Date : 2017-11-08
CVE-ID : CVE-2017-15922
Package : libextractor
Type : denial of service
Remote : No
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-471

Summary

The package libextractor before version 1.6-1 is vulnerable to denial
of service.

Resolution

Upgrade to 1.6-1.

pacman -Syu “libextractor>=1.6-1”

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 1.6.

Workaround

None.

Description

In GNU Libextractor before 1.6, there is an out-of-bounds read in the
EXTRACTOR_dvi_extract_method function in plugins/dvi_extractor.c.

Impact

An attacker is able to crash the application by providing a crafted DVI
file.

References

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-10/msg00008.html
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2017-15922