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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-17141: hylafax JPEG support code execution

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-17141: hylafax JPEG support code execution

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/21/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/10/2018
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

HylaFAX 6.0.6 and HylaFAX+ 5.6.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a dial-in session that provides a FAX page with the JPEG bit enabled, which is mishandled in FaxModem::writeECMData() in the faxd/CopyQuality.c++ file.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-hylafax

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