An integer overflow was discovered in the TIFF handling code in OpenOffice. If a user were tricked into loading a malicious TIFF image, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
4 October 2007
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
An integer overflow was discovered in the TIFF handling code in OpenOffice. If a user were tricked into loading a malicious TIFF image, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart OpenOffice to effect the necessary changes.
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