Debian Security Advisory
DSA-550-1 wv -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 20 Sep 2004
- Affected Packages:
- wv
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 264972.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0645. - More information:
-
iDEFENSE discovered a buffer overflow in the wv library, used to convert and preview Microsoft Word documents. An attacker could create a specially crafted document that could lead wvHtml to execute arbitrary code on the victims machine.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.1+rvt-2woody3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your wv package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wv/wv_0.7.1+rvt-2woody3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.