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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 07:52:53 -0500 (EST)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>
cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
CVE Assignments MITRE <cve-assign@...re.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request: libmspack: frame_end overflow which
could cause infinite loop
On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 02:12:56PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
>> Libmspack, a library to provide compression and decompression of
>> some file formats used by Microsoft, is used in many project (or
>> embedded there like also Clamav). This issue can cause a remotely
>> exploitable denial-of-service condition due to clamav thread hanging
>> forever while scanning the file. A patch is available at [2] for
>> libmspack.
>
> I have to clarify this last part of my CVE request for libmspack. I
> mentioned clamav embedding libmspack. Upstream Clamav tarball embeds
> an older version of libmspack, which does not seem to be affected by
> this problem. The problem itself for libmspack can be reproduced with
> https://bugs.debian.org/773041#13 .
>
> Regards,
> Salvatore
Use CVE-2014-9556.
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