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Gentoo GLSA-200801-19 Normal: GOffice Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey January 30, 2008
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GOffice is prone to several vulnerabilities that can lead to unauthorized code execution and Denial of Service attacks, making prompt upgrades to the latest versions essential
Multiple vulnerabilities in GOffice could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200801-19
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: GOffice: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: January 30, 2008
      Bugs: #198385
        ID: 200801-19


Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities in GOffice could result in the execution of
arbitrary code.

Background
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GOffice is a library of document-centric objects and utilities based on
GTK.

Affected packages
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     Package           /  Vulnerable  /                     Unaffected
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  1  x11-libs/goffice       < 0.6.1                           >= 0.6.1
                                                             *>= 0.4.3

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GOffice includes a copy of PCRE which is vulnerable to mul...
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Topics Covered

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Synopsis

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