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Slackware 10.2: 2006-357-04 Moderate KOffice PPT Parsing Issue

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Calendar Grey December 24, 2006
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The latest koffice update for Slackware 10.2 resolves a serious vulnerability concerning the parsing of PPT files.
A new koffice package is available for Slackware 10.2 to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/koffice-1.4.1-i486-3_slack10.2.tgz: Patched to fix a security problem with KOffice's PPT file parsing. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-6120 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue update Slackware KOffice PPT files

Where Find New Packages

HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading from ftp.slackware.com.
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 10.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2/patches/packages/koffice-1.4.1-i486-3_slack10.2.tgz

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Slackware 10.2 package: d241c50a4a2efc4a612d999c6aefdb31 koffice-1.4.1-i486-3_slack10.2.tgz

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue update Slackware KOffice PPT files

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg koffice-1.4.1-i486-3_slack10.2.tgz