Executive Summary

Summary
Title Abiword vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-203-1 First vendor Publication 2005-10-13
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2005-10-13
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:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5.1 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity High
Cvss Expoit Score 4.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)

The following packages are affected:

abiword

The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 2.0.7+cvs.2004.05.05-1ubuntu3.3 (for Ubuntu 4.10), or 2.2.2-1ubuntu2.2 (for Ubuntu 5.04). After a standard system upgrade you have to restart Abiword to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

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.

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-203-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

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

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200510-17 (AbiWord)
File : nvt/glsa_200510_17.nasl
2008-09-04 Name : FreeBSD Ports: koffice
File : nvt/freebsd_koffice.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 894-1 (abiword)
File : nvt/deb_894_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
20015 AbiWord RTF Importer ie_imp_RTF.cpp Multiple Overflows

Multiple remote overflows exist in AbiWord. The 'ParseLevelText()', 'getCharsInsideBrace()', 'HandleLists()', and 'HandleAbiLists()' functions in 'ie_imp_RTF.cpp' fail to perform proper bounds checking resulting in multiple stack-based buffer overflows. With a specially crafted RTF file, a remote attacker can cause arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity.

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2006-10-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-894.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-05-13 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_9cd52bc6a21311dab410000e0c2e438a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-01-15 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-203-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-10-24 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200510-17.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-10-19 Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2005-989.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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