CVE-2005-2972

no score yetEPSS 4.1%

abisource community abiword: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the RTF import feature in AbiWord before 2.2.11 allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an RTF file with long identifiers, which are not properly handled in the (1) ParseLevelText, (2) getCharsInsideBrace, (3) HandleLists, (4) or (5) HandleAbiLists functions in ie_imp_RTF.cpp, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2964.

EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 90% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-119
Published: 2005-10-23
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

abisource:community_abiword

References

http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2005-006.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/17199
http://secunia.com/advisories/17200
http://secunia.com/advisories/17213
http://secunia.com/advisories/17264

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