A vulnerability has been discovered in HSQLDB, the default database engine shipped with OpenOffice.org. This could result in the execution of arbitrary Java code embedded in a OpenOffice.org database document with the user's privilege. This update requires an update of both openoffice.org and hsqldb.

Updated openoffice.org2 packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite. HSQLDB is the default database engine shipped with OpenOffice.org 2.

It was discovered that HSQLDB could allow the execution of arbitrary public static Java methods. A carefully crafted odb file opened in OpenOffice.org Base could execute arbitrary commands with the permissions of the user running OpenOffice.org. (CVE-2007-4575)

All users of OpenOffice.org are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue.

This update of OpenOffice_org adds restrictions to SQL statements of Java-based databases to avoid the execution of native Jave code by creating procedures. (CVE-2007-4575)

It was discovered that HSQLDB could allow the execution of arbitrary public static Java methods. A carefully crafted odb file opened in OpenOffice.org Base could execute arbitrary commands with the permissions of the user running OpenOffice.org. (CVE-2007-4575)

StarOffice 8 (Solaris_x86): Update 14.
Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Sep/10/09

Updated openoffice.org and hsqldb packages that fix security flaws are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite. HSQLDB is a Java relational database engine used by OpenOffice.org Base.

It was discovered that HSQLDB could allow the execution of arbitrary public static Java methods. A carefully crafted odb file opened in OpenOffice.org Base could execute arbitrary commands with the permissions of the user running OpenOffice.org. (CVE-2007-4575)

It was discovered that HSQLDB did not have a password set on the 'sa' user. If HSQLDB has been configured as a service, a remote attacker who could connect to the HSQLDB port (tcp 9001) could execute arbitrary SQL commands. (CVE-2003-0845)

Note that in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, HSQLDB is not enabled as a service by default, and needs manual configuration in order to work as a service.

Users of OpenOffice.org or HSQLDB should update to these errata packages which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

Updated JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBEAP) packages that fix several security issues are now available.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBEAP) is a middleware platform for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications.

This release of JBEAP for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 contains the JBoss Application Server and JBoss Seam. This release serves as a replacement to JBEAP 4.2.0.GA. It fixes several security issues :

The JFreeChart component was vulnerable to multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. An attacker could misuse the image map feature to inject arbitrary web script, or HTML, via several attributes of the chart area. (CVE-2007-6306)

A vulnerability caused by exposing static Java methods was located within the HSQLDB component. This could be utilized by an attacker to execute arbitrary static Java methods. (CVE-2007-4575)

The setOrder method in the org.jboss.seam.framework.Query class did not correctly validate user-supplied parameters. This vulnerability allowed remote attackers to inject, and execute, arbitrary Enterprise JavaBeans Query Language (EJB QL) commands via the order parameter.
(CVE-2007-6433)

These updated packages include bug fixes and enhancements which are not listed here. For a full list, please refer to the JBEAP 4.2.0CP02 release notes:
http://redhat.com/docs/manuals/jboss/jboss-eap-4.2.0.cp02/readme.html

Warning: before applying this update, please backup the JBEAP 'server/[configuration]/deploy/' directory, and any other customized configuration files.

All users of JBEAP on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

The remote host is running a version of OpenOffice.org that is affected by a remote code execution flaw.  The root of the flaw appears to be the HSQLDB database engine.  An attacker exploiting this flaw would need to be able to convince a user to open a file that was handled by the OpenOffice HSQLDB database engine.  Successful exploitation would result in the attacker executing arbitrary Java code on the remote system.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
29226	Debian DSA-1419-1 : openoffice.org - programming error	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	12/7/2007	1/4/2021	high
29235	RHEL 4 : openoffice.org2 (RHSA-2007:1090)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	12/7/2007	1/14/2021	high
29368	SuSE 10 Security Update : OpenOffice_org (ZYPP Patch Number 4770)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	12/13/2007	1/14/2021	high
60323	Scientific Linux Security Update : openoffice.org2 on SL4.5 i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	8/1/2012	1/14/2021	high
22993	Solaris 5.10 (x86) : 120186-19	Nessus	Solaris Local Security Checks	11/6/2006	1/14/2021	high
63845	RHEL 5 : openoffice.org, hsqldb (RHSA-2007:1048)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	1/24/2013	1/14/2021	high
63848	RHEL 4 : JBoss EAP (RHSA-2008:0151)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	1/24/2013	1/14/2021	high
43661	CentOS 5 : openoffice.org / hsqldb (CESA-2007:1048)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	1/6/2010	1/4/2021	high
4308	OpenOffice HSQLDB Document Handling Java Code Injection	Nessus Network Monitor	Generic	12/5/2007	3/6/2019	medium

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