Debian: DSA-1104-2 Critical: OpenOffice.org Buffer Overflow Threat
debian
July 6, 2006
Loading malformed XML documents can cause buffer overflows in OpenOffice.org, a free office suite, and cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code
Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.3-9sarge3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.3-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your OpenOffice.org packages.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given at the end of this advisory:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
Size/MD5 checksum: 2878 d4c38e6f466931c04bba4d2cea73a3e5
Size/MD5 checksum: 4625079 30b33df9655dda05a892d32db462aa92
Size/MD5 checksum: 166568714 5250574bad9906b38ce032d04b765772
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