KOffice shared libraries: Heap corruption

KOffice shared libraries: Heap corruption An integer overflow in koffice-libs allows for a Denial of Service and possibly the execution of arbitrary code when viewing malicious PowerPoint files. koffice-libs December 10, 2006 December 10, 2006: 01 155914 remote 1.5.0 1.5.0

KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE. koffice-libs is a package containing shared librares used by KOffice programs.

Kees Cook of Ubuntu discovered that 'KLaola::readBigBlockDepot()' in klaola.cc fills 'num_of_bbd_blocks' while reading a .ppt (PowerPoint) file without proper sanitizing, resulting in an integer overflow subsequently overwriting the heap with parts of the file being read.

By enticing a user to open a specially crafted PowerPoint file, an attacker could crash the application and possibly execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user running KOffice.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All koffice-libs users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/koffice-libs-1.5.0"

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