USN-203-1: Abiword vulnerabilities
13 October 2005
abiword vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 5.04
- Ubuntu 4.10
Software Description
Details
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.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 5.04
- abiword
- Ubuntu 4.10
- abiword
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.