On Wed Jan 13, 2016 at 18:08:44 -0300, Martín Ferrari wrote:

> > When running under valgrind we see that an attempt is made to access
> > an invalid pointer:
> 
> This is a known issue (#679877), it was fixed when I took over this
> package, and it has already reached testing.

  Having the fixed package reach testing is good for users running
 testing, but not much use to people running stable/jessie as I am.

  I think that this is certainly a bug worthy of a DSA, or update
 in the next point-release.  Memory corruption via reading a file
 smells like a security issue.

> with the latest catdoc, and it does not segfault.
> Can you verify this?

  Yes.  Latest catdoc doesn't segfault with `x.doc`, but continues
 to segfault with `xx.doc` (attached).

Steve
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