CVE-2007-1466

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2007-03-16
Bugzilla:
1618301: CVE-2007-1466 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Integer overflow in the WP6GeneralTextPacket::_readContents function in WordPerfect Document importer/exporter (libwpd) before 0.8.9 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted WordPerfect file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-0002.

Find out more about CVE-2007-1466 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (openoffice.org) RHSA-2007:0033 2007-03-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (openoffice.org) RHSA-2007:0033 2007-03-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (libwpd) RHSA-2007:0055 2007-03-16
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (libwpd) RHSA-2007:0055 2007-03-16

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Fridrich Štrba and iDefense for alerting us to this issue.

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