USN-542-2: KOffice vulnerabilities

Publication date

15 November 2007

Overview

KOffice vulnerabilities


Packages

Details

USN-542-1 fixed a vulnerability in poppler. This update provides the
corresponding updates for KWord, part of KOffice.

Original advisory details:

Secunia Research discovered several vulnerabilities in poppler. If a
user were tricked into loading a specially crafted PDF file, a remote
attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary
code with the user’s privileges in applications linked against poppler.

USN-542-1 fixed a vulnerability in poppler. This update provides the
corresponding updates for KWord, part of KOffice.

Original advisory details:

Secunia Research discovered several vulnerabilities in poppler. If a
user were tricked into loading a specially crafted PDF file, a remote
attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary
code with the user’s privileges in applications linked against poppler.

Update instructions

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart KOffice to effect the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
7.10 gutsy kword –  1:1.6.3-0ubuntu5.1
7.04 feisty kword –  1:1.6.2-0ubuntu1.2
6.10 edgy kword –  1:1.5.2-0ubuntu2.3
6.06 dapper kword –  1:1.5.0-0ubuntu9.3

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