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Debian: DSA-1375-1 Critical: OpenOffice.org Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey September 17, 2007
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The Debian Security Advisory DSA 1450-1 concerns a critical vulnerability in OpenDocument handling within LibreOffice, which exposes the system to potential code execution risks.
A heap overflow vulnerability has been discovered in the TIFF parsing code of the OpenOffice.org suite

Summary


For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.1-9.

For the experimental distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.0~src680m224-1.

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 9c31601926b8ddc7f06a0c58159eeb03
Size/MD5 checksum: 4632139 9ae242bbbf6b852403ce12a4eeb1ceab
...

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