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<patchinfo incident="5980">
  <issue id="1058025" tracker="bnc">VUL-0: CVE-2017-14226: libwpd: remote attack against LibreOffice via heap-based buffer over-read in the WPXTableList class</issue>
  <issue id="2017-14226" tracker="cve" />
  <category>security</category>
  <rating>important</rating>
  <packager>scarabeus_iv</packager>
  <description>This update for libwpd fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:
- CVE-2017-14226: WP1StylesListener.cpp, WP5StylesListener.cpp, and WP42StylesListener.cpp in libwpd
  0.10.1 mishandle iterators, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based
  buffer over-read in the WPXTableList class in WPXTable.cpp). This vulnerability can be triggered
  in LibreOffice before 5.3.7. It may lead to suffering a remote attack against a LibreOffice
  application. (bnc#1058025)

Bugfixes:
- Fix various crashes, leaks and hangs when reading damaged files found by oss-fuzz.
- Fix crash when NULL is passed as input stream.
- Use symbol visibility on Linux. The library only exports public functions now.
- Avoid infinite loop. (libwpd#3)
- Remove bashism. (libwpd#5)
- Fix various crashes and hangs when reading broken files found with the help of american-fuzzy-lop.
- Make --help output of all command line tools more help2man-friendly.
- Miscellaneous fixes and cleanups.
- Generate manpages for the libwpd-tools
</description>
  <summary>Security update for libwpd</summary>
</patchinfo>

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