Gentoo: GLSA-200501-20 Normal: o3read Buffer Overflow Threat

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200501-20 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: o3read: Buffer overflow during file conversion Date: January 11, 2005 Bugs: #74478 ID: 200501-20

Synopsis ======= A buffer overflow in o3read allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code by way of a specially crafted XML file.
Background ========= o3read is a standalone converter for OpenOffice.org files. It allows a user to dump the contents tree (o3read) and convert to plain text (o3totxt) or to HTML (o3tohtml) Writer and Calc files.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-text/o3read <= 0.0.3 >= 0.0.4
========== Wiktor Kopec discovered that the parse_html function in o3read.c c...