Fabian Keil discovered a buffer overflow in antiword, a Microsoft Word to ASCII/PostScript converter. A specially-crafted document could cause antiword to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. Patch: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/att-870/antiword-bGetPPS-Prevent-buffer-overflow-of-atPPSlist-_szName.diff It was noted that this patch will not be included in an official release soon. As such, the patch should be applied. Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Fabian Keil for reporting this issue. Reference: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/870
Created antiword tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1169666] Affects: epel-5 [bug 1169667] Affects: epel-6 [bug 1169668]
antiword-0.37-17.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
antiword-0.37-17.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
antiword-0.37-17.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
antiword-0.37-17.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
antiword-0.37-17.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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