Scientific Linux: Crucial OpenOffice.org Security Patch for SL3.x and SL4.x

Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:00:39 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for openoffice.org on SL3.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: openoffice.org security update
Issue date:	2008-06-12
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-2152 CVE-2008-2366

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)

It was discovered that certain libraries in the Scientific Linux 3 and 4
openoffice.org packages had an insecure relative RPATH (runtime
library search path) set in the ELF (Executable and Linking Format)
header. A local user able to convince another user to run OpenOffice in
an attacker-controlled directory, could run arbitrary code with the
privileges of the victim. (CVE-2008-2366)

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
openoffice.org-1.1.2-42.2.0.EL3.src.rpm
 i386:
openoffice.org-1.1.2-42.2.0.EL3.i386.rpm
openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-42.2.0.EL3.i386.rpm
openoffice.org-libs-1.1.2-42.2.0.EL3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
openoffice.org-1.1.2-42.2.0.EL3.i386.rpm
openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-42.2.0.EL3.i386.rpm
openoffice.org-libs-1.1.2-42.2.0.EL3.i386.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
openoffice.org-1.1.5-10.6.0.5.EL4.src.rpm
 i386:
openoffice.org-1.1.5-10.6.0.5.EL4.i386.rpm
openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.5-10.6.0.5.EL4.i386.rpm
openoffice.org-kde-1.1.5-10.6.0.5.EL4.i386.rpm
openoffice.org-libs-1.1.5-10.6.0.5.EL4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
openoffice.org-1.1.5-10.6.0.5.EL4.i386.rpm
openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.5-10.6.0.5.EL4.i386.rpm
openoffice.org-kde-1.1.5-10.6.0.5.EL4.i386.rpm
openoffice.org-libs-1.1.5-10.6.0.5.EL4.i386.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson