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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2520-1 (openoffice.org)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to openoffice.org announced via advisory DSA 2520-1.
Insight
Insight
Timo Warns from PRE-CERT discovered multiple heap-based buffer overflows in OpenOffice.org, an office productivity suite. The issues lies in the XML manifest encryption tag parsing code. Using specially crafted files, an attacker can cause application crash and could cause arbitrary code execution. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.2.1-11+squeeze7. openoffice.org package has been replaced by libreoffice in testing (wheezy) and unstable (sid) distributions. For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1:3.5.4-7. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:3.5.4-7.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your openoffice.org packages.