USN-437-1: libwpd vulnerability
19 March 2007
libwpd vulnerability
Releases
Details
Sean Larsson of iDefense Labs discovered that libwpd was vulnerable to
integer overflows. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted WordPerfect document with an application that used libwpd, an
attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 6.10
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libwpd8c2a
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0.8.6-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 6.06
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libwpd8c2a
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0.8.4-2ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 5.10
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libwpd8c2
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0.8.2-2ubuntu0.1
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.