USN-1526-1: KOffice vulnerability
9 August 2012
KOffice could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Releases
Packages
- koffice - KDE Office Suite
Details
It was discovered that KOffice incorrectly handled certain malformed
MS Word documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening
a crafted MS Word file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or
execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 11.04
After a standard system update you need to restart KOffice to make all the
necessary changes.