gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200802-05.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200802-05">
  <title>Gnumeric: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>
    Several integer overflow vulnerabilities have been reported in Gnumeric,
    possibly resulting in user-assisted execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">gnumeric</product>
  <announced>February 12, 2008</announced>
  <revised>February 12, 2008: 01</revised>
  <bug>208356</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-office/gnumeric" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.8.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.8.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    The Gnumeric spreadsheet is a versatile application developed as part
    of the GNOME Office project.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Multiple integer overflow and signedness errors have been reported in
    the excel_read_HLINK() function in file plugins/excel/ms-excel-read.c
    when processing XLS HLINK opcodes.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted XLS
    file, possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code with
    the privileges of the user running the application.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Gnumeric users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-office/gnumeric-1.8.1&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0668">CVE-2008-0668</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:12:13 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:12:22 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:14:23 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>