A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)
The following packages are affected:
koffice-libs kword
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1:1.3.5-2ubuntu1.1. After a standard system upgrade you need to restart all KOffice applications to effect the necessary changes.
Details follow:
Chris Evans discovered a buffer overflow in the RTF import module of KOffice. By tricking a user into opening a specially-crafted RTF file, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the AbiWord user.