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Fedora Core 3 2005-984: koffice

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Check for the version of the koffice package

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory FEDORA-2005-984 (koffice).

The koffice package contains the KOffice office-type applications for
the K Desktop Environment (KDE) GUI desktop. KOffice contains KWord, a
word processor
KSpread, a spreadsheet
KPresenter, for presentations

and KChart, a diagram generator.

* Tue Oct 11 2005 Than Ngo 4:1.4.2-0.FC3.2
- remove security fix which is included in new 1.4.2 upstream

* Thu Sep 29 2005 Than Ngo 4:1.4.2-0.FC3.1
- update to 1.4.2
- apply upstream patch to fix CVE-2005-2971 kword buffer overflow #169486

Solution : Get the newest Fedora Updates
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2005 Tenable Network Security

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