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catdoc — security advisory
Catdoc v0.95 was discovered to contain a global buffer overflow via the function process_file at /src/reader.c.
- Products
- catdoc
- Affected versions
- 0.94.4-1.1, 1:0.94.3~git20151007.fd634c2+dfsg-2, 1:0.94.3~git20151007.fd634c2+dfsg-3, 1:0.94.3~git20160113.dbc9ec6+dfsg-1, 1:0.94.3~git20160113.dbc9ec6+dfsg-1+deb9u1build0.16.04.1, 1:0.94.3~git20160113.dbc9ec6+dfsg-1+deb9u1ubuntu0.1~esm1, 1:0.95-3, 1:0.95-4.1, 1:0.95-4.1ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm1, 1:0.95-4.1ubuntu0.20.04.1~esm1, 1:0.95-4.2, 1:0.95-5, 1:0.95-5build1, 1:0.95-5ubuntu0.22.04.1~esm1, 1:0.95-5ubuntu0.24.04.1~esm1, 1:0.95-6, 1:0.95-6build1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-31979
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 01:40 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Catdoc v0.95 was discovered to contain a global buffer overflow via the function process_file at /src/reader.c.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2023-31979
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Complete source record
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