USN-604-1: Gnumeric vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 7.10
• Ubuntu 7.04
• Ubuntu 6.10
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• gnumeric -

Details

Thilo Pfennig and Morten Welinder discovered that the XLS spreadsheet
handling code in Gnumeric did not correctly calculate needed memory sizes.
If a user or automated system were tricked into loading a specially crafted
XLS document, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user
privileges.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 7.10

• gnumeric - 1.7.11-1ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 7.04

• gnumeric - 1.7.8-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 6.10

• gnumeric - 1.7.0-1ubuntu4.1

Ubuntu 6.06

• gnumeric - 1.6.3-0ubuntu4.1

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart gnumeric to effect
the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2008-0668