First published: Thu Oct 07 2010(Updated: )
A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the way OpenOffice.org imported Microsoft Word Binary File Format (.DOC) files with certain user defined list styles (WW8). If a user opened a specially-crafted DOC file in OpenOffice.org suite tool (oowriter), it could lead to denial of service (oowriter executable crash), or possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running OpenOffice.org Writer. References: [1] <a href="http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/drosenbe/research.html">http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/drosenbe/research.html</a> Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank OpenOffice.org for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Dan Rosenberg of Virtual Security Research as the original reporter.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Apache OpenOffice | >=2.0.0<3.3.0 | |
Debian Debian Linux | =5.0 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =10.10 | |
Debian Debian Linux | =6.0 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =9.10 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =8.04 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =10.04 |
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