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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200501-20">
<title>o3read: Buffer overflow during file conversion</title>
<synopsis>
A buffer overflow in o3read allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code by
way of a specially crafted XML file.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">o3read</product>
<announced>January 11, 2005</announced>
<revised>January 11, 2005: 01</revised>
<bug>74478</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="app-text/o3read" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.0.4</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="le">0.0.3</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
o3read is a standalone converter for OpenOffice.org files. It
allows a user to dump the contents tree (o3read) and convert to plain
text (o3totxt) or to HTML (o3tohtml) Writer and Calc files.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Wiktor Kopec discovered that the parse_html function in o3read.c
copies any number of bytes into a 1024-byte t[] array.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
Using a specially crafted file, possibly delivered by e-mail or
over the Web, an attacker may execute arbitrary code with the
permissions of the user running o3read.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All o3read users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-text/o3read-0.0.4&quot;</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1288">CAN-2004-1288</uri>
<uri link="http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/o3read.txt">Wiktor Kopec advisory</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:12:42 +0000">
koon
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:13:07 +0000">
koon
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:55:34 +0000">
koon
</metadata>
</glsa>