USN-188-1: AbiWord vulnerability

29 September 2005

AbiWord vulnerability

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Details

Chris Evans discovered a buffer overflow 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.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 5.04
  • abiword-gnome -
  • abiword -
Ubuntu 4.10
  • abiword-gnome -
  • abiword -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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