Several security related problems have been discovered in the
OpenOffice.org package that allows malformed documents to trick the
system into crashes or even the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2010-3450
During an internal security audit within Red Hat, a directory
traversal vulnerability has been discovered in the way
OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 through 3.2.1 processes XML filter files. If
a local user is tricked into opening a specially-crafted OOo XML
filters package file, this problem could allow remote attackers to
create or overwrite arbitrary files belonging to local user or,
potentially, execute arbitrary code.
CVE-2010-3451
During his work as a consultant at Virtual Security Research
(VSR), Dan Rosenberg discovered a vulnerability in
OpenOffice.org's RTF parsing functionality. Opening a maliciously
crafted RTF document can caus an out-of-bounds memory read into
previously allocated heap memory, which may lead to the execution
of arbitrary code.
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