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TITLE:
OpenOffice.org Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24588

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24588/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
OpenOffice.org 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/6157/
OpenOffice 1.1.x
http://secunia.com/product/302/
OpenOffice 1.0.x
http://secunia.com/product/303/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in OpenOffice.org, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.

1) Several vulnerabilities within the libwpd library used by
OpenOffice.org can be exploited to cause heap-based buffer overflows
and may allow the execution of arbitrary code by e.g. tricking a user
into opening a specially crafted WordPerfect document.

For more information:
SA24507

2) A boundary error within the StarCalc parser can be exploited to
cause a stack-based buffer overflow and may allow execution of
arbitrary code by e.g. tricking a user into opening a specially
crafted document.

3) Shell meta characters are not correctly escaped, which can be
exploited to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands by e.g.
tricking a user into opening a specially crafted document and
clicking a malicious link.

SOLUTION:
Do not open untrusted documents.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) Originally discovered by an anonymous researcher. Further research
by Sean Larsson from iDefense revealed additional vulnerabilities.
2) Debian credits Next Generation Security.
3) Reported in a Debian advisory.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1270
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=490

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