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OpenOffice "rtl_allocateMemory()" Truncation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA31640
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Release Date:
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2008-08-28
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Popularity:
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4,698 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Workaround
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| Software: | OpenOffice.org 2.x
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Secunia CVSS-2 Score:
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in OpenOffice, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a truncation error within the ""rtl_allocateMemory()" function. This can be exploited to cause an out-of-bounds array access by e.g. tricking a user into opening a malicious document.
Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code on 64bit platforms.
Note: Reportedly, the pre-built packages distributed by OpenOffice.org and versions compiled with the system allocator ("--with-alloc=system" configuration option) are unaffected.
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