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.
Releases
Packages
- openoffice.org - Office productivity suite
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)
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.