A heap-based buffer out-ouf-bounds read was found in the way OpenOffice.org imported certain Microsoft Word Binary File Format (.DOC) file.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.

This has been assigned CVE-2011-2713.

A new security flaw, potentially allowing execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the OpenOffice.org suite tools has been reported by the InteVyDis security researchers team: [1] http://intevydis.com/oo0day.html [2] http://twitter.com/#!/legerov/status/75482755194032128

Note: Since no further detailed information is currently available about this flaw, Red Hat Security Response Team is actively investigating the progress done on this (at upstream and reporter side) and will update this record with further information as soon as it is available.

Mitigation: Do not OpenOffice.org documents from untrusted sources.

Redland Raptor (aka libraptor) before 2.0.7, as used by OpenOffice 3.3 and 3.4 Beta, LibreOffice before 3.4.6 and 3.5.x before 3.5.1, and other products, allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted XML external entity (XXE) declaration and reference in an RDF document.