INFORMATION BULLETIN
INFORMATION BULLETIN
| PROBLEM: | Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenOffice.org office suite, in the WMF file parser and in the EMF file parser that can be triggered by manipulated WMF and EMF files and can lead to heap overflows and arbitrary code execution. |
| PLATFORM: | Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) |
| DAMAGE: | Heap overflows and arbitrary code execution. |
| SOLUTION: | Upgrade to the approriate version. |
| VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT: |
The risk is MEDIUM. This can lead to heap overflows and arbitrary code execution. |
| CVSS 2 BASE SCORE: TEMPORAL SCORE: VECTOR: |
5.1 4.4 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:H/RL:OF/RC:C) |
| LINKS: | |
| DOE-CIRC BULLETIN: | http://doecirc.energy.gov/ciac/bulletins/t-022.shtml |
| ORIGINAL BULLETIN: | http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1661 |
| CVE: | CVE-2008-2237 CVE-2008-2238 |
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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenOffice.org office suite:
The SureRun Security team discovered a bug in the WMF file parser that can be triggered by manipulated WMF files and can lead to heap overflows and arbitrary code execution.
An anonymous researcher working with the iDefense discovered a bug in the EMF file parser that can be triggered by manipulated EMF files and can lead to heap overflows and arbitrary code execution.
For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch6.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 2.4.1-12.
For the experimental distribution these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.0~rc3-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your OpenOffice.org package.
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.
[***** End Debian Security Advisory DSA-1661-1 *****]
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