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Ubuntu 5.10, 6.06 LTS, 6.10 USN-391-1 Critical: libgsf Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey December 4, 2006
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A buffer overflow vulnerability in libgsf enables malicious actors to run code with user-level permissions by using specially crafted OLE files on Ubuntu platforms.
A heap overflow was discovered in the OLE processing code in libgsf

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security advisory critical arbitrary code execution heap overflow ubuntu libgsf malicious document

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-391-1 December 04, 2006

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security advisory critical arbitrary code execution heap overflow ubuntu libgsf malicious document

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