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Secunia Advisory SA38568

OpenOffice.org 3 Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA38568
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2010-02-12
   
Popularity 11,994 views
Comments 5 comments

Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact Security Bypass
Spoofing
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
OpenOffice.org 3.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2006-4339 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-0217 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-2493 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-2949 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-2950 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-3301 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-3302 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in OpenOffice.org, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, conduct spoofing attacks, or compromise a user's system.

1) The included libxml2 library fails to properly verify signatures.

This is related to:
SA21709

2) An error in the included libxmlsec library can be exploited to potentially forge a valid signature.

For more information:
SA35854

3) An error in the included MSVC Runtime package can be exploited to bypass certain security features.

For more information see vulnerability #2 in:
SA35967

4) An error in the processing XPM files can be exploited to potentially execute arbitrary code.

5) An error in the processing GIF files can be exploited to potentially execute arbitrary code.

6) An error in the processing of Word documents can be exploited to potentially execute arbitrary code.


Solution
Update to version 3.2.

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits:
4) Sebastian Apelt of siberas
5) Frank Reißner and Sebastian Apelt of siberas
6) Nicolas Joly of Vupen

Original Advisory
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2006-4339.html
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2009-0217.html
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2009-2493.html
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2009-2949.html
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2009-2950.html
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2009-3301-3302.html

Other references
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Deep Links
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Do you have additional information related to this advisory?

Please provide information about patches, mitigating factors, new versions, exploits, faulty patches, links, and other relevant data by posting comments to this Advisory. You can also send this information to vuln@secunia.com

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