OpenOffice / StarOffice Insecure Temporary File Creation - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

Home > Vulnerability Intelligence > Secunia Advisories > OpenOffice / StarOffice Insecure Temporary File Creation

Secunia Advisories

Advisories

Advisories by Product

Business Solutions Restricted

Partner Solutions Restricted

About

OpenOffice / StarOffice Insecure Temporary File Creation
Secunia Advisory:	SA12302	Advisory Toolbox: Issue ticket Save in to-do list Mark as handled Exploit information Download as PDF Review actions Add comment
Release Date:	2004-09-13
Popularity:	12,451 views

Critical:	Less critical
Impact:	Exposure of sensitive information
Where:	Local system
Solution Status:	Vendor Patch

Software:	OpenOffice 1.1.x StarOffice / StarSuite 7.x

Subscribe:	Instant alerts on relevant vulnerabilities

CVE reference:	CVE-2004-0752

Description: Secunia has discovered a vulnerability in OpenOffice and StarOffice, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain knowledge of sensitive information. The vulnerability is caused due to temporary files being created with insecure permissions in the "/tmp" folder when open documents are saved. Successful exploitation allows an unprivileged user to read arbitrary users' currently open documents. The vulnerability affects StarOffice 7 and OpenOffice 1.1.2. Solution: The vulnerability has been fixed in Product Update 3 for StarOffice and a release candidate of OpenOffice 1.1.3. StarOffice/StarSuite 7_x86 (Solaris): http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/advsea...p;queryKey5=117073&toDocument=yes StarOffice/StarSuite 7 (Solaris): http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/advsea...p;queryKey5=116519&toDocument=yes StarOffice/StarSuite 7 (Linux): http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/advsea...p;queryKey5=116518&toDocument=yes Provided and/or discovered by: Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research. Changelog: 2004-09-13: Updated credit section. Original Advisory: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2004-5/

Track this Secunia Advisory
Customers of the Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence solutions will automatically receive updates when new information regarding this advisory is released. Read more about our Vulnerability Intelligence solutions and what they can do for you and your company.

About this Secunia Advisory
Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise. Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.

Latest Advisories

7th Jan, 2009

New advisories:	31
New vulnerabilities:	90
Updated advisories:	37

Less // 522 views

Joomla! "X_CMS_LIBRARY_PATH" Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Moderately // 307 views

Red Hat update for xterm

Not // 289 views

Red Hat update for dbus

Moderately // 394 views

Red Hat update for openssl

Moderately // 640 views

OpenSSL DSA / ECDSA "EVP_VerifyFinal()" Spoofing Vulnerability

Less // 311 views

vBulletin Personal Sticky Threads Add-on Security Bypass Vulnerability

Moderately // 270 views

BlogHelper "common_db.inc" Information Disclosure Security Issue

Moderately // 270 views

PollHelper "poll.inc" Information Disclosure Security Issue

Highly // 351 views

ComponentOne SizerOne CTab ActiveX Control Caption List Buffer Overflow

Highly // 315 views

TSC2 Help Desk CTab ActiveX Control Caption List Buffer Overflow

Solutions | More...

Send Feedback to Secunia
If you have new information regarding this Secunia advisory or a product in our database, please send it to us using either our web form or email us at vuln@secunia.com. Ideas, suggestions, and other feedback are most welcome.