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FreeBSD Ports: koffice
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.
Insight
Insight
The following packages are affected: koffice abiword CVE-2005-2972 Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the RTF import feature in AbiWord before 2.2.11 allow user-complicit attackers to execute arbitrary code via an RTF file with long identifiers, which are not properly handled in the (1) ParseLevelText, (2) getCharsInsideBrace, (3) HandleLists, (4) or (5) HandleAbiLists functions in ie_imp_RTF.cpp, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2964.
Solution
Solution
Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2005-006.txt http://www.abisource.com/changelogs/2.2.11.phtml http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20051011-1.txt http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/9cd52bc6-a213-11da-b410-000e0c2e438a.html