Vigil@nce - libwpd: NULL pointer dereference via WP6ContentListener-defineTable
January 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: openSUSE Leap, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop,
SLES.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: denial of service on server, denial of service on
service, denial of service on client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 20/11/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a NULL pointer to be dereferenced via
WP6ContentListener::defineTable() of libwpd, in order to trigger a
denial of service.
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