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libjakarta-poi-java: denial of service

Package(s):libjakarta-poi-java CVE #(s):CVE-2012-0213
Created:May 10, 2012 Updated:April 10, 2013
Description:

From the Debian advisory:

It was discovered that Apache POI, a Java implementation of the Microsoft Office file formats, would allocate arbitrary amounts of memory when processing crafted documents. This could impact the stability of the Java virtual machine.

Alerts:
Debian DSA-2468-1 2012-05-09
Fedora FEDORA-2012-7683 2012-05-19
Fedora FEDORA-2012-7686 2012-05-19
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:0654-1 2012-05-29
Fedora FEDORA-2012-10835 2012-08-03
Mageia MGASA-2013-0044 2013-02-09
Mandriva MDVSA-2013:094 2013-04-10
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