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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56317
Category:FreeBSD Local Security Checks
Title:FreeBSD Ports: koffice
Summary:The remote host is missing an update to the system; as announced in the referenced advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update to the system
as announced in the referenced advisory.

Vulnerability 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:
Update your system with the appropriate patches or
software upgrades.

CVSS Score:
5.1

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2972
BugTraq ID: 15096
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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