[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 6 Update: catdoc-0.94.2-10.el6

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Tue Oct 28 11:04:28 UTC 2014


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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2014-3297
2014-10-13 20:52:34
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Name        : catdoc
Product     : Fedora EPEL 6
Version     : 0.94.2
Release     : 10.el6
URL         : http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/
Summary     : A program which converts Microsoft office files to plain text
Description :
catdoc is program which reads one or more Microsoft word files
and outputs text, contained insinde them to standard output.
Therefore it does same work for.doc files, as unix cat
command for plain ASCII files.
It is now accompanied by xls2csv - program which converts
Excel spreadsheet into comma-separated value file,
and catppt - utility to extract textual information
from Powerpoint files

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Update Information:

Fix buffer overflow vulnerability
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #872390 - catdoc: buffer overflow flaw
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872390
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update catdoc' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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