DSA-1100-1 wv2 -- integer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1100-1 wv2 -- integer overflow

Date Reported:

15 Jun 2006

Affected Packages:

wv2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-2197.

More information:

A boundary checking error has been discovered in wv2, a library for accessing Microsoft Word documents, which can lead to an integer overflow induced by processing word files.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain wv2 packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.2-1sarge1

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

We recommend that you upgrade your libwv packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/wv2_0.2.2-1sarge1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/wv2_0.2.2-1sarge1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/wv2_0.2.2.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-1_0.2.2-1sarge1_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-dev_0.2.2-1sarge1_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-1_0.2.2-1sarge1_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-dev_0.2.2-1sarge1_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-1_0.2.2-1sarge1_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-dev_0.2.2-1sarge1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-1_0.2.2-1sarge1_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-dev_0.2.2-1sarge1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-1_0.2.2-1sarge1_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-dev_0.2.2-1sarge1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-1_0.2.2-1sarge1_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-dev_0.2.2-1sarge1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-1_0.2.2-1sarge1_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-dev_0.2.2-1sarge1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-1_0.2.2-1sarge1_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-dev_0.2.2-1sarge1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-1_0.2.2-1sarge1_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-dev_0.2.2-1sarge1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-1_0.2.2-1sarge1_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-dev_0.2.2-1sarge1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-1_0.2.2-1sarge1_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-dev_0.2.2-1sarge1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-1_0.2.2-1sarge1_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv2/libwv2-dev_0.2.2-1sarge1_sparc.deb

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