<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200704-12"> <title>OpenOffice.org: Multiple vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis> Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenOffice.org, allowing for remote execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">OpenOffice.org</product> <announced>2007-04-16</announced> <revised count="01">2007-04-16</revised> <bug>170828</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="app-office/openoffice" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.1.0-r1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.1.0-r1</vulnerable> </package> <package name="app-office/openoffice-bin" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.2.0</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.2.0</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> John Heasman of NGSSoftware has discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the StarCalc parser and an input validation error when processing metacharacters in a link. Also OpenOffice.Org includes code from libwpd making it vulnerable to heap-based overflows when converting WordPerfect document tables (GLSA 200704-07). </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted document, possibly leading to execution of arbitrary code with the rights of the user running OpenOffice.org. </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 ">=app-office/openoffice-2.1.0-r1"</code> <p> All OpenOffice.org binary users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/openoffice-bin-2.2.0"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0002">CVE-2007-0002</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0238">CVE-2007-0238</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0239">CVE-2007-0239</uri> <uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-07.xml">GLSA-200704-07</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-04-11T10:02:01Z"> jaervosz </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-04-11T18:10:31Z"> p-y </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-04-11T18:15:09Z"> p-y </metadata> </glsa>