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Debian 3.1: DSA 1270-1 Critical: OpenOffice.org Local And Remote Exploits

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Calendar Grey March 20, 2007
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Significant vulnerabilities impact LibreOffice on Ubuntu; patch now available to address dangers presented by both local and network-based attacks.
Several security related problems have been discovered in OpenOffice.org, the free office suite

Summary


iDefense reported several integer overflow bugs in libwpd, a
library for handling WordPerfect documents that is included in
OpenOffice.org. Attackers are able to exploit these with
carefully crafted WordPerfect files that could cause an
application linked with libwpd to crash or possibly execute
arbitrary code.

CVE-2007-0238

Next Generation Security discovered that the StarCalc parser in
OpenOffice.org contains an easily exploitable stack overflow that
could be used exploited by a specially crafted document to execute
arbitrary code.

CVE-2007-0239

It has been reported that OpenOffice.org does not escape shell
meta characters and is hence vulnerable to execute arbitrary shell
commands via a specially crafted document after the user clicked
to a prepared link.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.1.3-9sarge6.

For the testing distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in
v...

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