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

Announced

2008-01-30

Revised

2008-01-30

Access

remote

Bugs

#198385

Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200801-19

Affected packages

Package	Arch	Vulnerable	Unaffected
x11-libs/goffice	*	< 0.6.1	>= 0.6.1, >= 0.4.3 (revision)

Background

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

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