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StarOffice / StarSuite Multiple Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA20911  
Release Date: 2006-07-03

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Partial Fix

Software:StarOffice / StarSuite 7.x
StarOffice / StarSuite 8.x
StarOffice 6.x

CVE reference:CVE-2006-2198 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2006-2199 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2006-3117 (Secunia mirror)



Description:
Three vulnerabilities have been reported in StarOffice, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA20867

The vulnerabilities have been reported in the following versions:
* StarOffice 6 Office Suite
* StarOffice/StarSuite 7
* StarOffice 8 Office Suite
* StarSuite 8

Solution:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

StarOffice 8 Office Suite:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-120185-06-1

StarSuite 8:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-120189-06-1

-- x86 Platform --

StarOffice 8 Office Suite:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-120186-06-1

StarSuite 8:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-120190-06-1

-- Linux Platform --

StarOffice/StarSuite 7:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-116518-11-1

StarOffice 8 Office Suite:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-120184-05-1

StarSuite 8:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-120188-05-1

-- Windows Platform --

StarOffice/StarSuite 7:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-116520-10-1

StarOffice 8 Office Suite:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-120187-05-1

StarSuite 8:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-120191-05-1

Patches for other versions are reportedly pending completion.

Do not open untrusted documents. Disabled Java Applets support to prevent exploitation of one of the vulnerabilities (see vendor advisory for details).

Original Advisory:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102475-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102490-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102501-1

Other References:
SA20867:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20867/



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.

9 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. Sun StarOffice/StarSuite "rtl_allocateMemory()" Integer Overflow
2. Sun StarOffice/StarSuite Multiple Vulnerabilities
3. Sun StarOffice/StarSuite Database Document Processing Arbitrary Java Method Execution
4. Sun StarOffice Office Suite TIFF Parsing Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities
5. Sun StarOffice Office Suite RTF File and FreeType Font Parsing Vulnerabilities
6. Sun StarOffice and StarSuite 8 WordPerfect Vulnerability
7. StarOffice Two Vulnerabilities
8. StarOffice WMF/EMF Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
9. OpenOffice / StarOffice Insecure Temporary File Creation


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