GLSA 200603-25: OpenOffice.org: Heap overflow in included libcurl

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Severity:	normal
Title:	OpenOffice.org: Heap overflow in included libcurl
Date:	03/27/2006
Bugs:	#126433
ID:	200603-25

Synopsis

OpenOffice.org contains a vulnerable version of libcurl that may cause a heap overflow when parsing URLs.

Background

OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, data charting, formula editing and file conversion facilities. libcurl, which is included in OpenOffice.org, is a free and easy-to-use client-side library for transferring files with URL syntaxes, supporting numerous protocols.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
app-office/openoffice-bin	< 2.0.2	>= 2.0.2	All supported architectures
app-office/openoffice	< 2.0.1-r1	>= 2.0.1-r1	All supported architectures

Description

OpenOffice.org includes libcurl code. This libcurl code is vulnerable to a heap overflow when it tries to parse a URL that exceeds a 256-byte limit (GLSA 200512-09).

Impact

An attacker could entice a user to call a specially crafted URL with OpenOffice.org, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the rights of the user running the application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All OpenOffice.org binary users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/openoffice-bin-2.0.2"

All OpenOffice.org users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/openoffice-2.0.1-r1"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200603-25.xml

Concerns?

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