RHSA-2010:0101: Important: openoffice.org security update

OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite that includes desktopapplications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet application,presentation manager, formula editor, and a drawing program.An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, wasfound in the way OpenOffice.org parsed XPM files. An attacker could createa specially-crafted document, which once opened by a local, unsuspectinguser, could lead to arbitrary code execution with the permissions of theuser running OpenOffice.org. Note: This flaw affects embedded XPM files inOpenOffice.org documents as well as stand-alone XPM files. (CVE-2009-2949)An integer underflow flaw and a boundary error flaw, both possibly leadingto a heap-based buffer overflow, were found in the way OpenOffice.orgparsed certain records in Microsoft Word documents. An attacker couldcreate a specially-crafted Microsoft Word document, which once opened by alocal, unsuspecting user, could cause OpenOffice.org to crash or,potentially, execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the userrunning OpenOffice.org. (CVE-2009-3301, CVE-2009-3302)A heap-based buffer overflow flaw, leading to memory corruption, was foundin the way OpenOffice.org parsed GIF files. An attacker could create aspecially-crafted document, which once opened by a local, unsuspectinguser, could cause OpenOffice.org to crash. Note: This flaw affects embeddedGIF files in OpenOffice.org documents as well as stand-alone GIF files.(CVE-2009-2950)All users of OpenOffice.org are advised to upgrade to these updatedpackages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. Allrunning instances of OpenOffice.org applications must be restarted for thisupdate to take effect.