KDE Security Advisory: KWord RTF import buffer overflow Original Release Date: 2005-10-11 URL: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20051011-1.txt 0. References CAN-2005-2971 CESA-2005-005 1. Systems affected: All KOffice releases starting from KOffice 1.2.0 up to including KOffice 1.4.1. 2. Overview: Chris Evans reported a heap based buffer overflow in the RTF importer of KWord. 3. Impact: Opening specially crafted RTF files in KWord can cause execution of abitrary code. 4. Solution: Source code patches have been made available which fix these vulnerabilities. Contact your OS vendor / binary package provider for information about how to obtain updated binary packages. 5. Patch: Patch for KOffice 1.4.1 is available from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches : 9f77b327119fd1db0752dab785e2a975 post-koffice-1.4.1-rtfimport.diff Patch for KOffice 1.3.5 is available from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches : 71a1baa8244dbcc1bfc2bd3c3e3dd40f post-koffice-1.3.5-rtfimport.diff Patch for KOffice 1.2.1 is available from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches : b36488a186aded0f5e812397af3c689a post-koffice-1.2.1-rtfimport.diff