__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN KOffice Security Update [Red Hat RHSA:2007:0010-4] February 21, 2007 17:00 GMT Number R-152 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: An integer overflow bug was found in KOffice's PPT file processor. PLATFORM: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, WS (v. 2.1) DAMAGE: An attacker could create a malicious PPT file that could cause KOffice to execute arbitrary code if the file was opened by a victim. SOLUTION: Upgrade to the appropriate version. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. An attacker could execute arbitrary code. ASSESSMENT: ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/r-152.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0010.html CVE: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CVE-2006-6120 ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start Red Hat RHSA:2007:0010-4 *****] Moderate: koffice security update Advisory: RHSA-2007:0010-4 Type: Security Advisory Severity: Moderate Issued on: 2007-02-20 Last updated on: 2007-02-20 Affected Products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 2.1) Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 2.1) Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 2.1) Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for the Itanium Processor OVAL: com.redhat.rhsa-20070010.xml CVEs (cve.mitre.org): CVE-2006-6120 Details Updated KOffice packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. 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. Updated packages Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 2.1) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SRPMS: koffice-1.1.1-2.3.src.rpm 52c3cfb9b5eb38f1c99b53dc5d8d56df IA-32: koffice-1.1.1-2.3.i386.rpm 843f35a9ef08270d9dec5d5c071756d8 koffice-devel-1.1.1-2.3.i386.rpm af4bdfbdb50dd1da6527f0d3f54762f8 IA-64: koffice-1.1.1-2.3.ia64.rpm 522af4bed9d2feee80f67bb75b22e918 koffice-devel-1.1.1-2.3.ia64.rpm 0fe4d6181a1b302bb8e7417a381f3b3b Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 2.1) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SRPMS: koffice-1.1.1-2.3.src.rpm 52c3cfb9b5eb38f1c99b53dc5d8d56df IA-32: koffice-1.1.1-2.3.i386.rpm 843f35a9ef08270d9dec5d5c071756d8 koffice-devel-1.1.1-2.3.i386.rpm af4bdfbdb50dd1da6527f0d3f54762f8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 2.1) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SRPMS: koffice-1.1.1-2.3.src.rpm 52c3cfb9b5eb38f1c99b53dc5d8d56df IA-32: koffice-1.1.1-2.3.i386.rpm 843f35a9ef08270d9dec5d5c071756d8 koffice-devel-1.1.1-2.3.i386.rpm af4bdfbdb50dd1da6527f0d3f54762f8 Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for the Itanium Processor -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SRPMS: koffice-1.1.1-2.3.src.rpm 52c3cfb9b5eb38f1c99b53dc5d8d56df IA-64: koffice-1.1.1-2.3.ia64.rpm 522af4bed9d2feee80f67bb75b22e918 koffice-devel-1.1.1-2.3.ia64.rpm 0fe4d6181a1b302bb8e7417a381f3b3b (The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network) Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information) 217738 - CVE-2006-6120 koffice integer overflow References http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6120 http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at http://www.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ [***** End Red Hat RHSA:2007:0010-4 *****] _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Red Hat for the information contained in this bulletin. _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC, the Computer Incident Advisory Capability, is the computer security incident response team for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the emergency backup response team for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). CIAC is located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. 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