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Red Hat: RHSA-2008:0835-01 Critical: OpenOffice.org Memory Issue

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Calendar Grey August 27, 2008
Dist Redhat Esm H88
New release for OpenOffice.org on Fedora tackles critical vulnerability linked to memory management issue impacting reliability.
Updated openoffice.org packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite that includes desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, formula editor, and a drawing program.
A numeric truncation error was found in the OpenOffice.org memory allocator. If a carefully crafted file was opened by a victim, an attacker could use this flaw to crash OpenOffice.org or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-3282)
All users of openoffice.org are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat critical memory flaw system crash openoffice.org

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3282 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: openoffice.org-base-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm openoffice.org-calc-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm openoffice.org-core-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm openoffice.org-debuginfo-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm openoffice.org-draw-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm openoffice.org-emailmerge-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm openoffice.org-graphicfilter-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm openoffice.org-headless-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm openoffice.org-impress-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm openoffice.org-javafilter-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-af_ZA-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-ar-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-as_IN-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-bg_BG-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-bn-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-ca_ES-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-cs_CZ-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-cy_GB-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-da_DK-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-de-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-el_GR-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm openoffice.org-langpack-es-2.3.0-6.5.2.el5_2.i386.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2008:0835-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0835.html
Issue date: 2008-08-27

Topic

Updated openoffice.org packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat critical memory flaw system crash openoffice.org

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

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

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

Bugs Fixed

458056 - CVE-2008-3282 openoffice.org: numeric truncation error in memory allocator (64bit)

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