Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Libwpd, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. These issues are due to integer and buffer overflow errors in the "WP6GeneralTextPacket::_readContents", "WP3TablesGroup::_readContents()" and "WP5DefinitionGroup_DefineTablesSubGroup::WP5DefinitionGroup_DefineTablesSubGroup()" functions when processing data read from a malformed Wordperfect file, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted document using an application linked against a vulnerable library.
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Sean Larsson (iDefense Labs)
ChangeLog
2007-03-16 : Initial release
2007-03-16 : Updated References
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