libwv2 did not sufficiently check the validity of its input Certain
invalid Word documents caused a buffer overflow By tricking a user
into opening a specially crafted Word file with an application that
uses libwv2, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with
the user’s privileges ...
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 022-1sarge1
For the unstable d ...