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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4361-1 libextractor -- security update

Date Reported:

28 Dec 2018

Affected Packages:

libextractor

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-20430, CVE-2018-20431.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libextractor, a library to extract arbitrary meta-data from files, which may lead to denial of service or memory disclosure if a malformed OLE file is processed.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.3-4+deb9u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your libextractor packages.

For the detailed security status of libextractor please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libextractor