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USN-1496-1: OpenOffice.org vulnerabilities

2 July 2012

OpenOffice.org could be made to crash or potentially run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

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Releases

Packages

Details

A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the Lotus Word Pro import
filter in OpenOffice.org. The default compiler options for affected
releases should reduce the vulnerability to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2685)

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala discovered that OpenOffice.org could be made to crash
if it opened a specially crafted Word document. (CVE-2011-2713)

Integer overflows were discovered in the graphics loading code of several
different image types. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted file, an attacker could cause OpenOffice.org to crash or possibly
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the
program. (CVE-2012-1149)

Sven Jacobi discovered an integer overflow when processing Escher graphics
records. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted PowerPoint
file, an attacker could cause OpenOffice.org to crash or possibly execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
(CVE-2012-2334)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 10.04

After a standard system update you need to restart OpenOffice.org to make
all the necessary changes.

Related notices

  • USN-1495-1: libreoffice, libreoffice-core, libreoffice-l10n, libreoffice-l10n-common