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=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-437-1 March 19, 2007 libwpd vulnerability CVE-2007-0002 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 5.10 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 6.10 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 5.10: libwpd8c2 0.8.2-2ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: libwpd8c2a 0.8.4-2ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 6.10: libwpd8c2a 0.8.6-1ubuntu0.1 In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Sean Larsson of iDefense Labs discovered that libwpd was vulnerable to integer overflows. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted WordPerfect document with an application that used libwpd, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.