USN-603-2: KOffice vulnerability

Releases

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

Packages

• koffice -

Details

USN-603-1 fixed vulnerabilities in poppler. This update provides the
corresponding updates for KWord, part of KOffice.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that the poppler PDF library did not correctly handle
certain malformed embedded fonts. If a user or an automated system were
tricked into opening a malicious PDF, a remote attacker could execute
arbitrary code with user privileges.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 7.10

• kword - 1:1.6.3-0ubuntu5.2

Ubuntu 7.04

• kword - 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 6.10

• kword - 1:1.5.2-0ubuntu2.4

Ubuntu 6.06

• kword - 1:1.5.0-0ubuntu9.4

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

References

• CVE-2008-1693

Related notices

• USN-603-1: libpoppler2, poppler, libpoppler1