[security-alerts] FW: [SA23164] GNOME Structured File Library "ole_info_read_metabat()" Buffer Overflow

["Kazennov, Vladimir" <Vladimir.Kazennov@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> 
> TITLE:
> GNOME Structured File Library "ole_info_read_metabat()" Buffer
> Overflow
> 
> SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
> SA23164
> 
> VERIFY ADVISORY:
> http://secunia.com/advisories/23164/
> 
> CRITICAL:
> Moderately critical
> 
> IMPACT:
> System access
> 
> WHERE:
> From remote
> 
> SOFTWARE:
> GNOME Structured File Library (libgsf) 1.x
> http://secunia.com/product/12785/
> 
> DESCRIPTION:
> A vulnerability has been reported in libgsf, which potentially can be
> exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the
> library.
> 
> The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the
> "ole_info_read_metabat()" function in gsf/gsf-infile-msole.c. This
> can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by e.g.
> tricking a user into opening a specially crafted file in an
> application using the library.
> 
> Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code.
> 
> SOLUTION:
> Update to version 1.14.3.
> 
> PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
> Debian credits infamous41md.
> 
> ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
> http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1221
> 
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libgsf/gsf/gsf-infile-msole.c?r1=
> 1.73&r2=1.74
>