Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1796-1)

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Debian DSA-1796-1 : libwmf - pointer use-after-free

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the embedded GD library copy in libwmf, a library to parse windows metafiles WMF, makes use of a pointer after it was already freed. An attacker using a crafted WMF file can cause a denial of service or possibly the execute arbitrary code via applications using this...

[SECURITY] [DSA 1796-1] New libwmf packages fix denial of service

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-1796-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde April 7th, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...