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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-2972
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2005-2972

Description: Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the RTF import feature in AbiWord before 2.2.11 allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an RTF file with long identifiers, which are not properly handled in the (1) ParseLevelText, (2) getCharsInsideBrace, (3) HandleLists, (4) or (5) HandleAbiLists functions in ie_imp_RTF.cpp, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2964.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-203-1 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA17551 Secunia Advisory: SA17264 Secunia Advisory: SA17213 Secunia Advisory: SA17199 Secunia Advisory: SA17200 OSVDB 20015 MISC http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2005-006.txt http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-rc@lists.debian.org/msg28251.html GENTOO http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-17.xml FEDORA DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-894 CONFIRM http://www.abisource.com/changelogs/2.2.11.phtml BID 15096

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