Summary
Michal Zalewski and Hanno Boeck
discovered several vulnerabilities in unrtf, a RTF to other formats converter, leading to a denial of service (application crash) or, potentially, the execution of arbitrary code.
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy),
these problems have been fixed in version 0.21.5-3~deb7u1. This update is based on a new upstream version of unrtf including additional bug fixes, new features and incompatible changes (especially PostScript support is dropped).
For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.21.5-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your unrtf packages.
Insight
UnRTF is a moderately complicated
converter from RTF to other formats, including HTML, LaTeX, and text.
Converting to HTML, it supports tables, fonts, colors, embedded images, hyperlinks, paragraph alignment among other things. All other conversions are 'alpha'--just begun.
Affected
unrtf on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2014-9274, CVE-2014-9275 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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