CVE-2005-2972 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2005-2972

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the RTF import feature in...

Vulnerability Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the RTF import feature in AbiWord before 2.2.11 allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an RTF file with long identifiers, which are not properly handled in the (1) ParseLevelText, (2) getCharsInsideBrace, (3) HandleLists, (4) or (5) HandleAbiLists functions in ie_imp_RTF.cpp, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2964.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

community abiword
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: October 23rd, 2005
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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