Security Advisory SA30599 - OpenOffice "rtl_allocateMemory()" Integer Overflow Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA30599

OpenOffice "rtl_allocateMemory()" Integer Overflow Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA30599

Release Date

2008-06-10

Last Update

2008-06-11

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Criticality level

Highly critical

Impact

System access

Where

From remote

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Solution Status

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Software:

OpenOffice.org 2.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2008-2152 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in OpenOffice, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error in "rtl_allocateMemory()" and can be exploited to cause heap-based buffer overflows via a specially crafted document.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 2.0 to 2.4.

Solution
Update to version 2.4.1.

Provided and/or discovered by
Sean Larsson, iDefense Labs

Changelog
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Original Advisory
OpenOffice:
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2008-2152.html

iDefense:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=714

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