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Gentoo: GLSA-200509-20 Normal: AbiWord RTF Import Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2005
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The latest Gentoo GLSA 202310-12 highlights a vulnerability in LibreOffice's DOCX handling that may allow for remote code execution. Please update immediately.
AbiWord is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow during RTF import, making it vulnerable to the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200509-20 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: AbiWord: RTF import stack-based buffer overflow Date: September 30, 2005 Bugs: #107351 ID: 200509-20

Synopsis ======= AbiWord is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow during RTF import, making it vulnerable to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= AbiWord is a free and cross-platform word processing program. It allows to import RTF files into AbiWord documents.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-office/abiword < 2.2.10 >= 2.2.10
========== Chris Evans discovered that the RTF import function in AbiWord is vulnerable to a s...

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