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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS USN-1525-1 Moderate: Calligra Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey August 9, 2012
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A flaw in Calligra posed threats to user safety. Upgrade your Ubuntu system to bolster defenses and reduce potential intrusions.
Calligra could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

Calligra could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened

a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- calligra: integrated work applications suite

Details:

It was discovered that Calligra incorrectly handled certain malformed

MS Word documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening

a crafted MS Word file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or

execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program.

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Topics Covered

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  calligra                        1:2.4.0-0ubuntu2.1

After a standard system update you need to restart Calligra to make
all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1525-1

CVE-2012-3456

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August 09, 2012

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/calligra/1:2.4.0-0ubuntu2.1

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