CVE-2005-2972: Abisource Community Abiword

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. 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.

Affected products

• Abisource Community Abiword: up to and including 2.2.10

Published 2005-10-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.