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Red Hat 5: RHSA-2012:0411-01 Important: OpenOffice.org XML Flaw

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Calendar Grey March 22, 2012
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Recent enhancements to openoffice.org for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 address a critical security vulnerability related to RDF handling.
Updated openoffice.org packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Summary

OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite that includes desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet application, presentation manager, formula editor, and a drawing program. OpenOffice.org embeds a copy of Raptor, which provides parsers for Resource Description Framework (RDF) files.
An XML External Entity expansion flaw was found in the way Raptor processed RDF files. If OpenOffice.org were to open a specially-crafted file (such as an OpenDocument Format or OpenDocument Presentation file), it could possibly allow a remote attacker to obtain a copy of an arbitrary local file that the user running OpenOffice.org had access to. A bug in the way Raptor handled external entities could cause OpenOffice.org to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running OpenOffice.org. (CVE-2012-0037)
Red Hat would like to thank Timothy D. Morgan of VSR for reporting this issue.
All OpenOffice.org users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct this issue. All running instances of OpenOffice.org applications must be restarted for this update to take effect.

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security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact OpenOffice.org XML flaw important security issue RDF processing

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0037 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2012-0037.html

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: openoffice.org-base-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm openoffice.org-calc-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm openoffice.org-core-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm openoffice.org-debuginfo-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm openoffice.org-draw-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm openoffice.org-emailmerge-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm openoffice.org-graphicfilter-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm openoffice.org-headless-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm openoffice.org-impress-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm openoffice.org-javafilter-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-af_ZA-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-ar-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-as_IN-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-bg_BG-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-bn-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-ca_ES-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-cs_CZ-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-cy_GB-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-da_DK-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-de-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-el_GR-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-es-3.1.1-19.10.el5_8.1.i386.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2012:0411-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0411.html
Issue date: 2012-03-22

Topic

Updated openoffice.org packages that fix one security issue are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as havingimportant security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from theCVE link in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact OpenOffice.org XML flaw important security issue RDF processing

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

791296 - CVE-2012-0037 raptor: XML External Entity (XXE) attack via RDF files

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