CVE-2006-6120

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-12-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Integer overflow in the KPresenter import filter for Microsoft PowerPoint files (filters/olefilters/lib/klaola.cc) in KOffice before 1.6.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PPT file, which results in a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

KDE Koffice: 1.6.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/23143
http://secunia.com/advisories/23162
http://secunia.com/advisories/23220
http://secunia.com/advisories/23409
http://secunia.com/advisories/24218
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-05.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017318
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/koffice/1.6/koffice/filters/olefilters/lib/klaola.cc?rev=607037&r1=566347&r2=607037
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20061204-1.txt
http://www.koffice.org/announcements/changelog-1.6.1.php
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:222
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_29_sr.html

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