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TITLE:
libwpd Code Execution Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24507

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24507/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
libwpd 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/13657/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in libwpd, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or
to compromise an application using the library.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to unspecified overflow errors,
which can be exploited to crash the application or execute arbitrary
code.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 0.8.9.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.8.9.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Sean Larsson, iDefense

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=494122

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