<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200807-05"> <title>OpenOffice.org: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title> <synopsis> An integer overflow vulnerability has been reported in OpenOffice.org. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">openoffice openoffice-bin</product> <announced>July 09, 2008</announced> <revised>July 09, 2008: 01</revised> <bug>225723</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="app-office/openoffice" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.4.1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.4.1</vulnerable> </package> <package name="app-office/openoffice-bin" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.4.1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.4.1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> OpenOffice.org is an open source office productivity suite, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, data charting, formula editing, and file conversion facilities. </p> </background> <description> <p> Sean Larsson (iDefense Labs) reported an integer overflow in the function rtl_allocateMemory() in the file sal/rtl/source/alloc_global.c. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted document, possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All OpenOffice.org users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/openoffice-2.4.1"</code> <p> All OpenOffice.org binary users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/openoffice-bin-2.4.1"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2152">CVE-2008-2152</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:24:43 +0000"> p-y </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:24:50 +0000"> p-y </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:42:11 +0000"> p-y </metadata> </glsa>