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=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-604-1 April 22, 2008 gnumeric vulnerability CVE-2008-0668 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 6.10 Ubuntu 7.04 Ubuntu 7.10 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: gnumeric 1.6.3-0ubuntu4.1 Ubuntu 6.10: gnumeric 1.7.0-1ubuntu4.1 Ubuntu 7.04: gnumeric 1.7.8-0ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 7.10: gnumeric 1.7.11-1ubuntu3.1 After a standard system upgrade you need to restart gnumeric to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Thilo Pfennig and Morten Welinder discovered that the XLS spreadsheet handling code in Gnumeric did not correctly calculate needed memory sizes. If a user or automated system were tricked into loading a specially crafted XLS document, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.