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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 12:12:14 -0500
From: <cve-assign@...re.org>
To: <carnil@...ian.org>
CC: <cve-assign@...re.org>, <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>,
	<daved@...siol.usyd.edu.au>, <jf@...kes.org>, <willi@...ian.org>,
	<security@...ian.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request: UnRTF: stack-based buffer overflows in cmd_* functions

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>> I've found a Stack-based buffer overflow in unrtf 0.21.9, which
>> affects three functions including: cmd_expand, cmd_emboss and
>> cmd_engrave.

>> Apparently writing a negative integer to the buffer can trigger the
>> overflow (Minus sign needs an extra byte).

> https://bugs.debian.org/849705

>>> I guess that you can just add a package patch to increate the str[] buffer
>>> size, something like
>>> 
>>> - char str[10];
>>> + char str[15];

Use CVE-2016-10091 (for all of the 849705 report).

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