Debian DSA-2275-1 : openoffice.org - stack-based buffer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55538

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Will Dormann and Jared Allar discovered that the Lotus Word Pro import filter of OpenOffice.org, a full-featured office productivity suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office, is not properly handling object ids in the '.lwp' file format. An attacker can exploit this with a specially crafted file and execute arbitrary code with the rights of the victim importing the file.

The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected by this problem.

Solution

Upgrade the openoffice.org packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze3.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55538

File Name: debian_DSA-2275.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 7/8/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openoffice.org, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/7/2011

Reference Information

BID: 48387

DSA: 2275

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