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Debian: DSA-2151-1 Critical: OpenOffice.org Document Flaw Exploit

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Calendar Grey January 26, 2011
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Debian's DSA 2152-1 tackles significant vulnerabilities in LibreOffice that could lead to unauthorized code execution and system instabilities when processing specially crafted files.
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 arbit...

Summary

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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Package: openoffice.org
CVE ID: CVE-2010-3450 CVE-2010-3451 CVE-2010-3452 CVE-2010-3453

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