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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1246-1 (openoffice.org)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

9.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing an update to openoffice.org announced via advisory DSA 1246-1. John Heasman from Next Generation Security Software discovered a heap overflow in the handling of Windows Metafiles in OpenOffice.org, the free office suite, which could lead to a denial of service and potentially execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.3-9sarge4. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.4-1. We recommend that you upgrade your openofffice.org package. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201246-1

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