GLSA 200801-19: GOffice: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	GOffice: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	01/30/2008
Bugs:	#198385
ID:	200801-19

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities in GOffice could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

GOffice is a library of document-centric objects and utilities based on GTK.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
x11-libs/goffice	< 0.6.1	>= 0.6.1	All supported architectures

Description

GOffice includes a copy of PCRE which is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows and memory corruptions vulnerabilities (GLSA 200711-30).

Impact

An attacker could entice a user to open specially crafted documents with GOffice, which could possibly lead to the execution of arbitrary code, a Denial of Service or the disclosure of sensitive information.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All GOffice 0.4.x users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-libs/goffice-0.4.3"

All GOffice 0.6.x users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-libs/goffice-0.6.1"

References

GLSA-200711-30

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-19.xml

Concerns?

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