USN-677-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenOffice.org. The changes required that openoffice.org-l10n also be updated for the new version in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.
Original advisory details:
23 December 2008
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
USN-677-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenOffice.org. The changes required that openoffice.org-l10n also be updated for the new version in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.
Original advisory details:
Multiple memory overflow flaws were discovered in OpenOffice.org’s handling of WMF and EMF files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, a remote attacker might be able to execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2008-2237, CVE-2008-2238)
Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that senddoc, as included in OpenOffice.org, created temporary files in an insecure way. Local users could exploit a race condition to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. (CVE-2008-4937)
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.
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
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