Executive Summary

Summary
Title KOffice vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-202-1 First vendor Publication 2005-10-12
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2005-10-12
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 the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)

The following packages are affected:

koffice-libs kword

The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1:1.3.5-2ubuntu1.1. After a standard system upgrade you need to restart all KOffice applications to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

Chris Evans discovered a buffer overflow in the RTF import module of KOffice. By tricking a user into opening a specially-crafted RTF file, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the AbiWord user.

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-202-1

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 13

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200510-12 (koffice, kword)
File : nvt/glsa_200510_12.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 872-1 (koffice)
File : nvt/deb_872_1.nasl
0000-00-00 Name : Slackware Advisory SSA:2005-310-02 KOffice/KWord
File : nvt/esoft_slk_ssa_2005_310_02.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
19909 KOffice KWord RTF Importer Overflow

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2006-10-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-872.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-01-15 Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandrake_MDKSA-2005-185.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-01-15 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-202-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-11-07 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2005-310-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-10-19 Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2005-984.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-10-19 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200510-12.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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