CVE-2005-2972

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Debian Linux Security Advisory 894-1

Posted Nov 15, 2005

Authored by Debian | Site security.debian.org

Debian Security Advisory DSA 894-1 - Chris Evans discoverd several buffer overflows in the RTF import mechanism of AbiWord, a WYSIWYG word processor based on GTK 2. Opening a specially crafted RTF file could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

tags | advisory, overflow, arbitrary

systems | linux, debian

advisories | CVE-2005-2964, CVE-2005-2972

SHA-256 | 274758bf137822499400b3faab5dd8c66fdc5fca9ce222e98d17e12741ff3f4b

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 200510-17

Posted Oct 26, 2005

Authored by Gentoo | Site security.gentoo.org

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200510-17 - Chris Evans discovered a different set of buffer overflows than the one described in GLSA 200509-20 in the RTF import function in AbiWord. Versions less than 2.2.11 are affected.

tags | advisory, overflow

systems | linux, gentoo

advisories | CVE-2005-2972

SHA-256 | e7e66e422db95c30c79aa3f04099d0c57b9306bd7186e3754307131367a27ed6

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Ubuntu Security Notice 203-1

Posted Oct 15, 2005

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-203-1 - Chris Evans discovered several buffer overflows in the RTF import module of AbiWord. By tricking a user into opening an RTF file with specially crafted long identifiers, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the AbiWord user.

tags | advisory, overflow, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2005-2972

SHA-256 | 76c702637dc3eb014767a04c7676321c0459eeef60f740776468d9162ea3fed1

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