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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 21:28:32 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Kurt Seifried <kseifrie@...hat.com>, carnil@...ian.org
Subject: Re: CVE request: ppthtml heap-based buffer overflow
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On 11/13/2013 09:11 PM, Murray McAllister wrote:
> Morning,
>
> A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was reported in ppthtml:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=729279
>
> Looking in xlhtml-0.5-15.fc19.src.rpm, I think the root cause of
> the problem is in __OLEdecode() with an under allocation here:
>
> 163 BDepot = (U8 *) malloc (0x0200 * (num_bbd_blocks +
> num_xbbd_blocks));
>
> That still passes this check:
>
> 167 assert (num_bbd_blocks <= (0x0200 / 4 - 1) * num_xbbd_blocks
> + 168 (0x0200 / 4) - 19);
>
> I suspect the overflow eventually occurs in this loop:
>
> 184 for (i = 0; i < num_xbbd_blocks; i++)
>
> with:
>
> 203 fread (s, 0x0200, 1, input); 204 test_exitf
> (!ferror (input), 5, ends ()); 205 s += 0x0200;
>
> continually executed (but haven't tested thoroughly!!!).
>
> Can a CVE please be assigned?
>
> (Cc'ing Salvatore in case there is more information in the Debian
> report that I cannot see.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Murray McAllister / Red Hat Security Response Team
Now this, this is a CVE request. Please use CVE-2013-4565 for this issue.
- --
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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