USN-8973-1: libmspack vulnerability

It was discovered that libmspack did not properly initialize pointers when handling errors while reading KWAJ archive headers. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libmspack to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code.

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