Slackware 10.2: 2005-310-02 Alert: KOffice RTF Parsing Memory Overflow
slackware
November 6, 2005
New KOffice packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue with KWord
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/koffice-1.4.1-i486-2.tgz: Patched. Fixes a buffer overflow in KWord's RTF import discovered by Chris Evans. For more details, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-2971 (* Security fix *)
Where Find New Packages
Updated package for Slackware 9.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.1/patches/packages/koffice-1.2.1-i486-6.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 10.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.0/patches/packages/koffice-1.3.1-i486-4.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 10.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.1/patches/packages/koffice-1.3.5-i486-3.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 10.2:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 9.1 package:
a5503e60f4c8a2fd5bf37bc39317ea36 koffice-1.2.1-i486-6.tgz
Slackware 10.0 package:
6a18c08c734c2b5fef1151eb1c5bf0ee koffice-1.3.1-i486-4.tgz
Slackware 10.1 package:
ec4776da58e7b8607d7e1cb6f6e2f686 koffice-1.3.5-i486-3.tgz
Slackware 10.2 package:
f9c5d2324334c752da35cb3542290440 koffice-1.4.1-i486-2.tgz
Slackware -current package:
f9c5d2324334c752da35cb3542290440 koffice-1.4.1-i486-2.tgz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg koffice-1.4.1-i486-2.tgz
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