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Red Hat 4 & 5 Important: RHSA-2008:0537-01 Heap Overflow OpenOffice.org

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Calendar Grey June 12, 2008
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The LibreOffice security patch for CentOS safeguards against significant stack overflow vulnerabilities in corporate Linux environments.
Updated openoffice.org packages to correct a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having ...

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 drawing program.
Sean Larsson found a heap overflow flaw in the OpenOffice memory allocator. If a carefully crafted file was opened by a victim, an attacker could use the flaw to crash OpenOffice.org or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-2152)
All users of OpenOffice.org are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported fix to correct this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat critical heap overflow OpenOffice.org Linux ES

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2152 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4:
Source:
i386: openoffice.org2-base-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-calc-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-core-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-debuginfo-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-draw-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-emailmerge-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-graphicfilter-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-impress-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-javafilter-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-langpack-af_ZA-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-langpack-ar-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-langpack-bg_BG-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-langpack-bn-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-langpack-ca_ES-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-langpack-cs_CZ-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-langpack-cy_GB-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-langpack-da_DK-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-langpack-de-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-langpack-el_GR-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-langpack-es-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-langpack-et_EE-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm openoffice.org2-langpack-eu_ES-2.0.4-5.7.0.5.0.i386.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2008:0537-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0537.html
Issue date: 2008-06-12

Topic

Updated openoffice.org packages to correct a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 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 security update Red Hat critical heap overflow OpenOffice.org Linux ES

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ppc, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, x86_64

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

450518 - CVE-2008-2152 OpenOffice.org overflow possible on allocation

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