USN-202-1: KOffice vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-202-1

12th October, 2005

koffice vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 5.04

Details

Chris Evans discovered a buffer overflow in the RTF import module of
KOffice. By tricking a user into opening a specially-crafted RTF file,
an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the AbiWord user.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:

Ubuntu 5.04:
kword
koffice-libs

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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References

CVE-2005-2971