John Heasman from Next Generation Security Software discovered a heap overflow in the handling of Windows Metafiles in OpenOffice.org, the free office suite, which could lead to a denial of service and potentially execution of arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.3-9sarge4. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.4-1. We recommend that you upgrade your openoffice.org package.
John Heasman from Next Generation Security Software discovered a heap overflow in the handling of Windows Metafiles in OpenOffice.org, the free office suite, which could lead to a denial of service and potentially execution of arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.3-9sarge4.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.4-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your openoffice.org package.
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.