DSA-2473-1 openoffice.org -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2473-1 openoffice.org -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

16 May 2012

Affected Packages:

openoffice.org

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-1149.

More information:

Tielei Wang discovered that OpenOffice.org does not allocate a large enough memory region when processing a specially crafted JPEG object, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow and potentially arbitrary code execution.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze5.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:3.4.5-1 of the libreoffice package.

We recommend that you upgrade your openoffice.org packages.