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Ubuntu: USN-4615-1 (CVE-2017-6802): Yerase's TNEF vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4615-1 (CVE-2017-6802): Yerase's TNEF vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/10/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/15/2017
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in ytnef before 1.9.2. There is a potential heap-based buffer over-read on incoming Compressed RTF Streams, related to DecompressRTF() in libytnef.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libytnef0

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