Package : openoffice.org
Vulnerability : several
Problem type : local (remote)
Debian-specific: no
CVE IDs : CVE-2007-5745 CVE-2007-5746 CVE-2007-5747 CVE-2008-0320
Several security related problems have been discovered in
OpenOffice.org, the free office suite. The Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2007-5745, CVE-2007-5747
Several bugs have been discovered in the way OpenOffice.org parses
Quattro Pro files that may lead to a overflow in the heap
potentially leading to the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2007-5746
Specially crafted EMF files can trigger a buffer overflow in the
heap that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2008-0320
A bug has been discovered in the processing of OLE files that can
cause a buffer overflow in the heap potentially leading to the
execution of arbitrary code.
Recently reported problems in the ICU library are fixed in separate
libicu packages with DSA 1511 against which OpenOffice.org is linked.
For the old stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.1.3-9sarge9.
For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch5.
For the testing (lenny) and unstable (sid) distributions these
problems have been fixed in version 2.4.0~ooh680m5-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your openoffice.org packages.
Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given at the end of this advisory:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
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