USN-542-2: KOffice vulnerabilities
15 November 2007
KOffice vulnerabilities
Releases
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
Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu 6.10
Ubuntu 6.06
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart KOffice to effect
the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-542-1: libpoppler1, libpoppler2, poppler