DSA-1246-1 openoffice.org -- buffer overflow

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2006-5870  

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.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1246-1 openoffice.org -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
08 Jan 2007
Affected Packages:
openoffice.org
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 405679, Bug 405986.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-5870.
More information:

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.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org_1.1.3-9sarge4.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org_1.1.3-9sarge4.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org_1.1.3.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-af_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-ar_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-ca_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-cs_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-cy_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-da_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-de_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-el_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-en_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-es_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-et_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-eu_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-fi_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-fr_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-gl_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-he_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-hi_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-hu_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-it_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-ja_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-kn_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-ko_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-lt_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-nb_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-nl_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-nn_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-ns_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-pl_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-pt-br_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-pt_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-ru_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-sk_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-sl_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-sv_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-th_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-tn_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-tr_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-zh-cn_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-zh-tw_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-l10n-zu_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-mimelnk_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/ttf-opensymbol_1.1.3-9sarge4_all.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-bin_1.1.3-9sarge4_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-dev_1.1.3-9sarge4_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-evolution_1.1.3-9sarge4_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-gtk-gnome_1.1.3-9sarge4_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-kde_1.1.3-9sarge4_i386.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-bin_1.1.3-9sarge4_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-dev_1.1.3-9sarge4_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-evolution_1.1.3-9sarge4_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-gtk-gnome_1.1.3-9sarge4_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-kde_1.1.3-9sarge4_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-bin_1.1.3-9sarge4_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-dev_1.1.3-9sarge4_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-evolution_1.1.3-9sarge4_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-gtk-gnome_1.1.3-9sarge4_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-kde_1.1.3-9sarge4_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-bin_1.1.3-9sarge4_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-dev_1.1.3-9sarge4_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-evolution_1.1.3-9sarge4_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-gtk-gnome_1.1.3-9sarge4_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-kde_1.1.3-9sarge4_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.