Debian Security Advisory
DLA-870-1 libplist -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 24 Mar 2017
- Affected Packages:
- libplist
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-6435, CVE-2017-6436, CVE-2017-6439.
- More information:
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More vulnerabilities were discovered in libplist, a library for reading and writing the Apple binary and XML property lists format. A maliciously crafted plist file could cause a denial-of-service (application crash) by triggering a heap-based buffer overflow or memory allocation error in the parse_string_node function.
For Debian 7
Wheezy
, these problems have been fixed in version 1.8-1+deb7u3.We recommend that you upgrade your libplist packages.
Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
