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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56959
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1100)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'wv2' package(s) announced via the DSA-1100 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'wv2' package(s) announced via the DSA-1100 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
A boundary checking error has been discovered in wv2, a library for accessing Microsoft Word documents, which can lead to an integer overflow induced by processing word files.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain wv2 packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.2-1sarge1

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your libwv packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'wv2' package(s) on Debian 3.1.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
6.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-2197
BugTraq ID: 18437
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18437
Debian Security Information: DSA-1100 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1100
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-24.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:109
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016313
http://secunia.com/advisories/20665
http://secunia.com/advisories/20688
http://secunia.com/advisories/20689
http://secunia.com/advisories/20826
http://secunia.com/advisories/20844
http://secunia.com/advisories/20899
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2006:015 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_38_security.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/300-1/
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2350
XForce ISS Database: wvware-wv2-word-overflow(27184)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27184
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