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Gentoo GLSA-201502-09: Normal Severity Antiword Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey February 7, 2015
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo GLSA 202301-14: Mitigating vulnerabilities in Zlib's compression algorithms to enhance defenses against potential exploitations in data handling.
A buffer overflow vulnerability in Antiword could result in execution of arbitrary code or Denial of Service.

Summary

A buffer overflow vulnerability has been found in wordole.c in Antiword.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow antiword normal severity execution bug

Resolution

All Antiword users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/antiword-0.37-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-8123 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8123

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201502-09
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: Antiword: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Date: February 07, 2015
Bugs: #531404
ID: 201502-09

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow antiword normal severity execution bug

Synopsis

A buffer overflow vulnerability in Antiword could result in execution of arbitrary code or Denial of Service.

Background

Antiword is a free MS Word reader.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-text/antiword < 0.37-r1 >= 0.37-r1

Impact

===== A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted document using Antiword, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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