Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55633
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu USN-203-1 (abiword)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to abiword announced via advisory USN-203-1. A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) The following packages are affected: abiword Chris Evans discovered several buffer overflows in the RTF import module of AbiWord. By tricking a user into opening an RTF file with specially crafted long identifiers, 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 2.0.7+cvs.2004.05.05-1ubuntu3.3 (for Ubuntu 4.10), or 2.2.2-1ubuntu2.2 (for Ubuntu 5.04). After a standard system upgrade you have to restart Abiword to effect the necessary changes. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-203-1 Risk factor : High CVSS Score: 5.1
Cross-Ref:	BugTraq ID: 15096 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2972 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15096 Debian Security Information: DSA-894 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-894 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-17.xml http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2005-006.txt http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-rc@lists.debian.org/msg28251.html http://www.osvdb.org/20015 http://secunia.com/advisories/17199 http://secunia.com/advisories/17200 http://secunia.com/advisories/17213 http://secunia.com/advisories/17264 http://secunia.com/advisories/17551 https://usn.ubuntu.com/203-1/ http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2086
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