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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.8

CVE-2006-6120 json

Integer overflow in the KPresenter import filter for Microsoft PowerPoint files (filters/olefilters/lib/klaola.cc) in KOffice before 1.6.1…

published 2006-12-03 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-6103

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.5%
EPSS 4.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • koffice RHEL 2.1 3:1.1.1-2.3

red hat advisories RHSA-2007:0010

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2006-6120 updated

koffice: update to 1.6.1

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 koffice 1.1.1-2.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1 koffice 1.1.1-2.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1 koffice 1.1.1-2.3 Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 koffice 1.1.1-2.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:0010

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.