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koffice: code execution

Package(s):koffice CVE #(s):CVE-2012-3455
Created:August 10, 2012 Updated:August 30, 2012
Description:

From the Ubuntu advisory:

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.

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1526-1 2012-08-09
Fedora FEDORA-2012-11546 2012-08-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1060-1 2012-08-30

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