Description of problem: On September 30th an update to abiword in FC3 showed up with the following notes: Chris Evans discovered a buffer overflow in AbiWord's RTF importer --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Thu Sep 29 2005 Caolan McNamara <caolanm> 1:2.0.12-10 - rh#169478# CAN-2005-2964 Bug #169478 is still not viewable by me but, for example, a corresponding Gentoo advisory which can be viewed here: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/120486 says that all versions below 2.2.10 are vulnerable. The one currently available in extras is 2.2.9. See also http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2964
Sorry. A false alarm. This turned out really to be a funny in my yum configuration which decided to forget to pick up updates from extras leaving me with a version 2.2.9. I should have check first repositories myself instead of relying on yum.