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OpenOffice Multiple Vulnerabilties and Security Issue

Secunia Advisory:

SA32419

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Release Date:

2008-10-29

Last Update:

2008-11-11

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Critical:

Highly critical

Impact:

Privilege escalation
System access

Where:

From remote

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

Software:

OpenOffice.org 2.x

Binary Analysis:

BA592 :: Available for 1 Credit

BA598 :: Available for 1 Credit

BA599 :: Available for 1 Credit

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities and a security issue have been reported in OpenOffice, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system, and by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

1) An error in the processing of WMF files can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted StarOffice/StarSuite document.

2) Multiple integer overflows when parsing certain EMR records of EMF files can be exploited to cause heap-based buffer overflows via a specially crafted StarOffice/StarSuite document.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of arbitrary code.

3) The "senddoc" script uses temporary files in an insecure manner. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the affected script.

NOTE: The security issue only affects Unix versions of OpenOffice.

The vulnerabilities are reported in 2.x versions prior to 2.4.2.

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