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calligra: code execution

Package(s):calligra CVE #(s):CVE-2012-3456
Created:August 10, 2012 Updated:September 25, 2012
Description:

From the Ubuntu advisory:

It was discovered that Calligra 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.

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1525-1 2012-08-09
Fedora FEDORA-2012-11566 2012-08-21
Fedora FEDORA-2012-11566 2012-08-21
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1061-1 2012-08-30
Gentoo 201209-10 2012-09-25

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