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Debian: DSA 1246-1 Critical: OpenOffice.org Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey January 8, 2007
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3457-1 addresses a potential security flaw in LibreOffice that may enable unauthorized remote code execution.
John Heasman from Next Generation Security Software discovered a heap overflow in the handling of Windows Metafiles in OpenOffice.org, the free office suite, which could lead to a ...
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.4-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your openofffice.org package.


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 3adfe8b09c20248767fe9d995b3f184c
Size/MD5 checksum: 4623655 108120f3b365317fa9c47b25a5445fce
Size/MD5 checksum: 166568714 5250574bad9906b38ce032d04b765772

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 checksum: 2647376 8704f95d7e844e302abcae4d403f7818
...

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