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Debian DSA-1880-1 Critical: OpenOffice Remote Code Execution Exploits

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Calendar Grey September 4, 2009
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Debian Security Notification DSA-1890-2 details various vulnerabilities identified in LibreOffice and the subsequent resolutions.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenOffice.org office suite

Summary

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenOffice.org
office suite. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
identifies the following problems:

CVE-2009-0200

Dyon Balding of Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by opening a specially crafted Microsoft
Word document.

When reading a Microsoft Word document, a bug in the parser of
sprmTDelete records can result in an integer underflow that may
lead to heap-based buffer overflows.

Successful exploitation may allow arbitrary code execution in the
context of the OpenOffice.org process.

CVE-2009-0201

Dyon Balding of Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by opening a specially crafted Microsoft
Word document.

When reading a Microsoft Word document, a bug in the parser of
sprmTDelete records can result in heap-based buffer overflows.

Successful exploitation may allow arbitrary code execution in the ...

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Package: openoffice.org

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