GLSA 200812-13: OpenOffice.org: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	OpenOffice.org: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	12/12/2008
Bugs:	#235824, #244995
ID:	200812-13

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities in OpenOffice.org might allow for user-assisted execution of arbitrary code or symlink attacks.

Background

OpenOffice.org is an open source office productivity suite, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, data charting, formula editing, and file conversion facilities.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
app-office/openoffice	< 3.0.0	>= 3.0.0	All supported architectures
app-office/openoffice-bin	< 3.0.0	>= 3.0.0	All supported architectures

Description

Two heap-based buffer overflows when processing WMF files (CVE-2008-2237) and EMF files (CVE-2008-2238) were discovered. Dmitry E. Oboukhov also reported an insecure temporary file usage within the senddoc script (CVE-2008-4937).

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted document, resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code. A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files on the system. Both cases happen with the privileges of the user running the application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

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

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/openoffice-3.0.0"

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


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/openoffice-bin-3.0.0"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-13.xml

Concerns?

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