Fedora 9 : openoffice.org-2.4.2-18.1.fc9 (2008-9313)

high Nessus Plugin ID 34681

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security update to address - CVE-2008-2237: Manipulated WMF files - CVE-2008-2238: Manipulated EMF files as described at http://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin.html

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected openoffice.org package.

See Also

http://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462639

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466528

http://www.nessus.org/u?7af868aa

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 34681

File Name: fedora_2008-9313.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/3/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openoffice.org, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/31/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2237, CVE-2008-2238

BID: 31962

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2008-9313