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>> OpenOffice.org Word Document Handling Client-Side Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Title : OpenOffice.org Word Document Handling Client-Side Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-5051
CVE ID : CVE-2006-6628
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-12-18
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A vulnerability has been identified in OpenOffice.org, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is due to a an error when handling malformed Word documents, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted document.
Note : This issue is related to VUPEN/ADV-2006-4997
Affected Products
OpenOffice.org versions 2.x
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5051
ChangeLog
2006-12-18 : Initial release
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