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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200510-17">
  <title>AbiWord: New RTF import buffer overflows</title>
  <synopsis>
    AbiWord is vulnerable to an additional set of buffer overflows during RTF
    import, making it vulnerable to the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">AbiWord</product>
  <announced>October 20, 2005</announced>
  <revised>October 20, 2005: 01</revised>
  <bug>109157</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-office/abiword" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.2.11</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.2.11</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    AbiWord is a free and cross-platform word processing program. It
    allows to import RTF files into AbiWord documents.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Chris Evans discovered a different set of buffer overflows than
    the one described in GLSA 200509-20 in the RTF import function in
    AbiWord.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    An attacker could design a malicious RTF file and entice a user to
    import it in AbiWord, potentially resulting in the execution of
    arbitrary code with the rights of the user running AbiWord.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All AbiWord users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-office/abiword-2.2.11&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-20.xml">GLSA-200509-20</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2972">CAN-2005-2972</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 18 Oct 2005 07:36:44 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:22:32 +0000">
    formula7
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:41:16 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>