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Scientific Linux: Critical OpenOffice.org2 Integer Overflow Issue

Calendar Nov 07, 2008 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory buffer overflow critical heap overflow integer overflow Scientific Linux openoffice.org2
Important: openoffice.org2 security update 
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 12:42:39 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for openoffice.org2 on SL45, 46, 47 i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: openoffice.org2 security update
Issue date:	2008-11-05
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-2237 CVE-2008-2238

SureRun Security Team discovered an integer overflow flaw leading to a heap
buffer overflow in the Windows Metafile (WMF) image format parser. An
attacker could create a carefully crafted document containing a malicious
WMF file that could cause OpenOffice.org to crash, or, possibly, execute
arbitrary code if opened by a victim. (CVE-2008-2237)

Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in the Enhanced Windows Metafile
(EMF) parser. An attacker could create a carefully crafted document
containing a malicious EMF file that could cause OpenOffice.org to crash,
or, possibly, execute arbitrary code if opened by a victim. (CVE-2008-2238)

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
openoffice.org2-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.src.rpm
 i386:
openoffice.org2-base-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-calc-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-core-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-draw-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-emailmerge-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-graphicfilter-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-impress-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-javafilter-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-af_ZA-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-ar-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-bg_BG-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-bn-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-ca_ES-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-cs_CZ-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-cy_GB-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-da_DK-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-de-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-el_GR-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-es-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-et_EE-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-eu_ES-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-fi_FI-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-fr-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-ga_IE-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-gl_ES-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-gu_IN-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-he_IL-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-hi_IN-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-hr_HR-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-hu_HU-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-it-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-ja_JP-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-ko_KR-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-lt_LT-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-ms_MY-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-nb_NO-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-nl-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-nn_NO-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-pa_IN-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-pl_PL-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-pt_BR-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-pt_PT-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-ru-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-sk_SK-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-sl_SI-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-sr_CS-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-sv-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-ta_IN-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-th_TH-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-tr_TR-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-zh_CN-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-zh_TW-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-zu_ZA-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-math-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-pyuno-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-testtools-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-writer-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-xsltfilter-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
openoffice.org2-base-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-calc-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-core-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-draw-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-emailmerge-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-graphicfilter-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-impress-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-javafilter-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-af_ZA-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-ar-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-bg_BG-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-bn-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-ca_ES-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-cs_CZ-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-cy_GB-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-da_DK-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-de-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-el_GR-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-es-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-et_EE-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-eu_ES-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-fi_FI-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-fr-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-ga_IE-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-gl_ES-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-gu_IN-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-he_IL-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-hi_IN-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-hr_HR-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-hu_HU-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-it-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-ja_JP-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-ko_KR-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-lt_LT-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-ms_MY-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-nb_NO-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-nl-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-nn_NO-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-pa_IN-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-pl_PL-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-pt_BR-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-pt_PT-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-ru-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-sk_SK-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-sl_SI-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-sr_CS-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-sv-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-ta_IN-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-th_TH-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-tr_TR-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-zh_CN-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-zh_TW-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-langpack-zu_ZA-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-math-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-testtools-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-writer-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm
openoffice.org2-xsltfilter-2.0.4-5.7.0.6.0.i386.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson