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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