gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200807-05.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200807-05">
  <title>OpenOffice.org: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>
    An integer overflow vulnerability has been reported in OpenOffice.org.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">openoffice openoffice-bin</product>
  <announced>2008-07-09</announced>
  <revised count="01">2008-07-09</revised>
  <bug>225723</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-office/openoffice" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.4.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.4.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="app-office/openoffice-bin" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.4.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.4.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    OpenOffice.org is an open source office productivity suite, including
    word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, data charting,
    formula editing, and file conversion facilities.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Sean Larsson (iDefense Labs) reported an integer overflow in the
    function rtl_allocateMemory() in the file
    sal/rtl/source/alloc_global.c.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted
    document, possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code
    with the privileges of the user running the application.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All OpenOffice.org users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-office/openoffice-2.4.1"</code>
    <p>
    All OpenOffice.org binary users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-office/openoffice-bin-2.4.1"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2152">CVE-2008-2152</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-07-07T07:24:43Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-07-07T07:24:50Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-07-07T11:42:11Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>