Ubuntu Security Update USN-4615-1: Yerase's TNEF vulnerabilities

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It was discovered that Yerase's TNEF had null pointer dereferences, infinite loop, buffer overflow, out of bounds reads, directory traversal issues and other vulnerabilities. An attacker could use those issues to cause a crash and consequently a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6298, CVE-2017-6299, CVE-2017-6300, CVE-2017-6301, CVE-2017-6302, CVE-2017-6303, CVE-2017-6304, CVE-2017-6305, CVE-2017-6306, CVE-2017-6800, CVE-2017-6801, CVE-2017-6802)

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