Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in OpenOffice.org, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. These issues are due to integer and buffer overflow errors in the "EnhWMFReader::ReadEnhWMF()" and "WMFReader::ReadRecordParams()" functions when processing malformed EMF/WMF files, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into open a malicious file.

Affected Products

OpenOffice.org version 2.0.4 and prior
OpenOffice.org version 1.1.5 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to OpenOffice.org version 2.1.0 :
http://download.openoffice.org/index.html

Or apply patch :
http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/39509/alloc.overflows.wmf.patch

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0031
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=70042
http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/high-risk-vulnerabilities-in-the-openoffice-suite/

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by John Heasman (NGSSoftware)

ChangeLog

2007-01-03 : Initial release
2007-01-04 : Updated References

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