CVE-2005-2971

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the KWord RTF importer for KOffice 1.2.0 through 1.4.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted RTF file.

Affected products

KDE Koffice: 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3 (+7)

References

http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2005-005.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/17145/
http://secunia.com/advisories/17171
http://secunia.com/advisories/17190
http://secunia.com/advisories/17212
http://secunia.com/advisories/17332
http://secunia.com/advisories/17480
http://secunia.com/advisories/17486
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015035
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2005&m=slackware-security.388487
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-872
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-12.xml

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