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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200701-07 |
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http://security.gentoo.org/ |
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Severity: Normal |
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Title: OpenOffice.org: EMF/WMF file handling vulnerabilities |
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Date: January 12, 2007 |
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Bugs: #159951 |
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ID: 200701-07 |
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Synopsis |
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A truncation error and integer overflows in the EMF/WMF file handling |
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of OpenOffice.org could be exploited to execute arbitrary code. |
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Background |
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OpenOffice.org is an open source office productivity suite, including |
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word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, data charting, |
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formula editing, and file conversion facilities. |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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1 app-office/openoffice-bin < 2.1.0 >= 2.1.0 |
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2 app-office/openoffice < 2.0.4 >= 2.0.4 |
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2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures. |
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Description |
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John Heasman of NGSSoftware has discovered integer overflows in the |
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EMR_POLYPOLYGON and EMR_POLYPOLYGON16 processing and an error within |
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the handling of META_ESCAPE records. |
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Impact |
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An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to cause heap overflows |
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and potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user |
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running OpenOffice.org by enticing the user to open a document |
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containing a malicious WMF/EMF file. |
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Workaround |
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There is no known workaround known at this time. |
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Resolution |
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All OpenOffice.org binary users should update to version 2.1.0 or |
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later: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/openoffice-bin-2.1.0" |
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All OpenOffice.org users should update to version 2.0.4 or later: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/openoffice-2.0.4" |
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References |
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[ 1 ] CVE-2006-5870 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5870 |
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Availability |
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
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the Gentoo Security Website: |
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-07.xml |
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Concerns? |
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
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confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost |
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
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security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org. |
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License |
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Copyright 2007 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
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belongs to its owner(s). |
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The contents of this document are licensed under the |
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Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 |