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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1807-1 vcftools -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

27 May 2019

Affected Packages:

vcftools

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-11099, CVE-2018-11129, CVE-2018-11130.

More information:

Webin security lab - dbapp security Ltd found three issues in vcftools, a collection of tools to work with VCF files. Different functions in header.cpp are vulnerable to denial of services due to use-after-free issues or information disclosure due to heap-based buffer over-read.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 0.1.12+dfsg-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your vcftools packages.

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