RedHat: Moderate: koffice security update
Summary
Summary
KOffice is a collection of productivity applications for the K Desktop Environment (KDE) GUI desktop. An integer overflow bug was found in KOffice's PPT file processor. An attacker could create a malicious PPT file that could cause KOffice to execute arbitrary code if the file was opened by a victim. (CVE-2006-6120) All users of KOffice are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contains a backported patch to correct this issues.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:
up2date
This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.
5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
217738 - CVE-2006-6120 koffice integer overflow
6. RPMs required:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1:
SRPMS:
52c3cfb9b5eb38f1c99b53dc5d8d56df koffice-1.1.1-2.3.src.rpm
i386:
843f35a9ef08270d9dec5d5c071756d8 koffice-1.1.1-2.3.i386.rpm
af4bdfbdb50dd1da6527f0d3f54762f8 koffice-devel-1.1.1-2.3.i386.rpm
ia64:
522af4bed9d2feee80f67bb75b22e918 koffice-1.1.1-2.3.ia64.rpm
0fe4d6181a1b302bb8e7417a381f3b3b koffice-devel-1.1.1-2.3.ia64.rpm
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1:
SRPMS:
52c3cfb9b5eb38f1c99b53dc5d8d56df koffice-1.1.1-2.3.src.rpm
ia64:
522af4bed9d2feee80f67bb75b22e918 koffice-1.1.1-2.3.ia64.rpm
0fe4d6181a1b302bb8e7417a381f3b3b koffice-devel-1.1.1-2.3.ia64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1:
SRPMS:
52c3cfb9b5eb38f1c99b53dc5d8d56df koffice-1.1.1-2.3.src.rpm
i386:
843f35a9ef08270d9dec5d5c071756d8 koffice-1.1.1-2.3.i386.rpm
af4bdfbdb50dd1da6527f0d3f54762f8 koffice-devel-1.1.1-2.3.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1:
SRPMS:
52c3cfb9b5eb38f1c99b53dc5d8d56df koffice-1.1.1-2.3.src.rpm
i386:
843f35a9ef08270d9dec5d5c071756d8 koffice-1.1.1-2.3.i386.rpm
af4bdfbdb50dd1da6527f0d3f54762f8 koffice-devel-1.1.1-2.3.i386.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://www.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package
References
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6120 http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
Package List
Topic
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 - i386, ia64
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 - ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1 - i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1 - i386
Bugs Fixed