ALAS2-2019-1311


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1311
Advisory Release Date: 2019-10-08 21:56 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-10-09 23:19 Pacific
Severity: Low

Issue Overview:

In libwpd 0.10.2, there is a NULL pointer dereference in the function WP6ContentListener::defineTable in WP6ContentListener.cpp that will lead to a denial of service attack. This is related to WPXTable.h.(CVE-2018-19208)


Affected Packages:

libwpd


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update libwpd to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    libwpd-0.10.0-2.amzn2.aarch64
    libwpd-tools-0.10.0-2.amzn2.aarch64
    libwpd-devel-0.10.0-2.amzn2.aarch64
    libwpd-debuginfo-0.10.0-2.amzn2.aarch64

i686:
    libwpd-0.10.0-2.amzn2.i686
    libwpd-tools-0.10.0-2.amzn2.i686
    libwpd-devel-0.10.0-2.amzn2.i686
    libwpd-debuginfo-0.10.0-2.amzn2.i686

noarch:
    libwpd-doc-0.10.0-2.amzn2.noarch

src:
    libwpd-0.10.0-2.amzn2.src

x86_64:
    libwpd-0.10.0-2.amzn2.x86_64
    libwpd-tools-0.10.0-2.amzn2.x86_64
    libwpd-devel-0.10.0-2.amzn2.x86_64
    libwpd-debuginfo-0.10.0-2.amzn2.x86_64