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Gentoo: GLSA-202312-01 Critical: OpenOffice Document Parsing Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey December 10, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
LOffice open-source framework buffer overflow vulnerabilities may result in service disruptions or unauthorized code execution via specially crafted documents.
An integer overflow in koffice-libs allows for a Denial of Service and possibly the execution of arbitrary code when viewing malicious PowerPoint files

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200612-05 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: KOffice shared libraries: Heap corruption Date: December 10, 2006 Bugs: #155914 ID: 200612-05

Synopsis ======= An integer overflow in koffice-libs allows for a Denial of Service and possibly the execution of arbitrary code when viewing malicious PowerPoint files.
Background ========= KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE. koffice-libs is a package containing shared librares used by KOffice programs.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-office/koffice-libs < 1.5.0 >= 1.5.0
========== Kees Cook of Ubuntu discovered that 'KLaola::readBigBlockD...

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