USN-1526-1: KOffice vulnerability

Publication date

9 August 2012

Overview

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


Packages

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.

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

After a standard system update you need to restart KOffice to make all 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
11.10 oneiric koffice –  1:2.3.3-0ubuntu6.1
11.04 natty koffice –  1:2.3.3-0ubuntu4.1

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