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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55606
Category:Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:Ubuntu USN-202-1 (koffice)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to koffice
announced via advisory USN-202-1.

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)

The following packages are affected: koffice-libs kword

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.

Solution:
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to
version 1:1.3.5-2ubuntu1.1. After a standard system upgrade you need
to restart all KOffice applications to effect the necessary changes.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-202-1

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
7.5

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 15060
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2971
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15060
Debian Security Information: DSA-872 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-872
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-October/msg00042.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-12.xml
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2005-005.txt
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015035
http://secunia.com/advisories/17145/
http://secunia.com/advisories/17171
http://secunia.com/advisories/17190
http://secunia.com/advisories/17212
http://secunia.com/advisories/17332
http://secunia.com/advisories/17480
http://secunia.com/advisories/17486
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2005&m=slackware-security.388487
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2005:025 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_25_sr.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/202-1/
XForce ISS Database: koffice-kword-rtf-importer-bo(22562)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22562
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