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Gentoo: GLSA-200710-24 Normal: OpenOffice.org Heap Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey October 23, 2007
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
LibreOffice on Fedora presents a memory corruption flaw, enabling potential unauthorized access to execute arbitrary code. Act promptly to secure your systems.
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in OpenOffice.org, allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200710-24 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: OpenOffice.org: Heap-based buffer overflow Date: October 23, 2007 Bugs: #192818 ID: 200710-24

Synopsis ======= A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in OpenOffice.org, allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= OpenOffice.org is an open source office productivity suite, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, data charting, formula editing, and file conversion facilities.
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