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OpenOffice Multiple Vulnerabilties and Security Issue
Secunia Advisory:	SA32419	Advisory Toolbox: Issue ticket Save in to-do list Mark as handled Exploit information Download as PDF Review actions Add comment
Release Date:	2008-10-29
Last Update:	2008-11-11
Popularity:	5,039 views

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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CVE reference:	CVE-2008-2237 CVE-2008-2238 CVE-2008-4937

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. Solution: Update to version 2.4.2. Provided and/or discovered by: 1) The vendor credits an anonymous researcher working with the SureRun Security Team 2) Sebastian Apelt and Code Audit Labs, reported via iDefense Labs 3) Reported by Dmitry E. Oboukhov in a Debian bug report. Changelog: 2008-11-03: Updated "Description" and "Credits" section with new information provided by iDefense Labs. Added link to "Original Advisory" section. 2008-11-04: Added vulnerability #3 to the advisory. Updated credits and the "Original Advisory" section. 2008-11-11: Added CVE reference. Original Advisory: OpenOffice.org: http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2008-2237.html http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2008-2238.html iDefense Labs: http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=750 Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496361

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