glsa-200812-13.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200812-13">
  <title>OpenOffice.org: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple vulnerabilities in OpenOffice.org might allow for user-assisted
    execution of arbitrary code or symlink attacks.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">openoffice openoffice-bin</product>
  <announced>2008-12-12</announced>
  <revised count="01">2008-12-12</revised>
  <bug>235824</bug>
  <bug>244995</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-office/openoffice" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.0.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.0.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="app-office/openoffice-bin" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.0.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.0.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    OpenOffice.org is an open source office productivity suite, including
    word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, data charting,
    formula editing, and file conversion facilities.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Two heap-based buffer overflows when processing WMF files
    (CVE-2008-2237) and EMF files (CVE-2008-2238) were discovered. Dmitry
    E. Oboukhov also reported an insecure temporary file usage within the
    senddoc script (CVE-2008-4937).
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted
    document, resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code. A local
    attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files on
    the system. Both cases happen with the privileges of the user running
    the application.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All OpenOffice.org users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-office/openoffice-3.0.0"</code>
    <p>
    All OpenOffice.org binary users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-office/openoffice-bin-3.0.0"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2237">CVE-2008-2237</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2238">CVE-2008-2238</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4937">CVE-2008-4937</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-11-08T09:50:25Z">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-11-08T09:56:21Z">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-12-11T19:46:56Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>