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StarOffice WMF/EMF Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA23600
Release Date: 2007-01-05
Popularity: 6,180 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

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

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Description:
John Heasman has reported some vulnerabilities in StarOffice, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA23612

The vulnerabilities are reported in StarOffice versions 6, 7 and 8. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Apply patches:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/xprod-StarOffice

Provided and/or discovered by:
John Heasman, NGSSoftware

Original Advisory:
http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories...nerabilities-in-the-staroffice-suite/

Other References:
VulnWatch:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2007-q1/0002.html

SA23612:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23612


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