DSA-550-1 wv -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-550-1 wv -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

20 Sep 2004

Affected Packages:

wv

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 264972.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0645.

More information:

iDEFENSE discovered a buffer overflow in the wv library, used to convert and preview Microsoft Word documents. An attacker could create a specially crafted document that could lead wvHtml to execute arbitrary code on the victims machine.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.1+rvt-2woody3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your wv package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.