USN-542-2: KOffice vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 7.10
• Ubuntu 7.04
• Ubuntu 6.10
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• koffice -

Details

USN-542-1 fixed a vulnerability in poppler. This update provides the
corresponding updates for KWord, part of KOffice.

Original advisory details:

Secunia Research discovered several vulnerabilities in poppler. If a
user were tricked into loading a specially crafted PDF file, a remote
attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary
code with the user's privileges in applications linked against poppler.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 7.10

• kword - 1:1.6.3-0ubuntu5.1

Ubuntu 7.04

• kword - 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 6.10

• kword - 1:1.5.2-0ubuntu2.3

Ubuntu 6.06

• kword - 1:1.5.0-0ubuntu9.3

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart KOffice to effect
the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2007-4352
• CVE-2007-5392
• CVE-2007-5393

Related notices

• USN-542-1: poppler, libpoppler1, libpoppler2