Executive Summary

Summary
Title KOffice vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-1526-1 First vendor Publication 2012-08-09
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2012-08-09
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 11.10 - Ubuntu 11.04

Summary:

KOffice could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description: - koffice: KDE Office Suite

Details:

It was discovered that KOffice incorrectly handled certain malformed MS Word documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted MS Word file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 11.10:
koffice 1:2.3.3-0ubuntu6.1

Ubuntu 11.04:
koffice 1:2.3.3-0ubuntu4.1

After a standard system update you need to restart KOffice to make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1526-1
CVE-2012-3455

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/koffice/1:2.3.3-0ubuntu6.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/koffice/1:2.3.3-0ubuntu4.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1526-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18003
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18003
Title: USN-1526-1 -- koffice vulnerability
Description: KOffice could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1526-1
CVE-2012-3455
Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 11.04
Product(s): koffice
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 18

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-08-30 Name : FreeBSD Ports: koffice
File : nvt/freebsd_koffice0.nasl
2012-08-14 Name : Fedora Update for koffice FEDORA-2012-11546
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_11546_koffice_fc16.nasl
2012-08-14 Name : Ubuntu Update for koffice USN-1526-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1526_1.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2012-532.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-27 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_aa4d3d73ef1711e1b59300269ef07d24.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-11546.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-10 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1526-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2014-02-17 12:00:31
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