MGASA-2015-0261

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    MGASA-2015-0261

    Published: 5 Jul 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated libwmf package fixes security vulnerability

    Details: It was discovered that libwmf did not correctly process certain WMF (Windows Metafiles) containing BMP images. By tricking a victim into opening a specially crafted WMF file in an application using libwmf, a remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application (CVE-2015-0848, CVE-2015-4588). Two out of bounds reads in libwmf were also discovered, one in the meta_pen_create() function in player/meta.h (CVE-2015-4695) and one in wmf2gd.c and wmf2eps.c (CVE-2015-4696)

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0261.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16127, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/160668.html, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/21/3

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libwmf

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/libwmf?arch=source&distro=mageia-4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.2.8.4-30.2.mga4

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High