VUPEN Security - SuSE Security Update Fixes OpenOffice RTF Parser Heap Overflow Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

	Contact \| Site en Français

Vulnerabilities & Threats

VUPEN Security Advisories

Linux Security Advisories

Malware Advisories

Security Research

Threat Watch Blog

Zero-Day Monitor

Search Engine

Mailing List & RSS

>> SuSE Security Update Fixes OpenOffice RTF Parser Heap Overflow Vulnerability

Title : SuSE Security Update Fixes OpenOffice RTF Parser Heap Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-2376
CVE ID : CVE-2007-0245
Rated as : Critical

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-06-29

Technical Description

Receive VUPEN Security alerts in a Text format

Receive VUPEN Security alerts in a PDF format

Receive VUPEN Security alerts in an XML format

A vulnerability has been identified in SuSE, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by an error in OpenOffice.org. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-2166

Affected Products

SUSE LINUX 10.0
SUSE LINUX 10.1
openSUSE 10.2
SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0
Novell Linux Desktop 9
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1
SLE SDK 10 SP1

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2376
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-Jun/msg00008.html

ChangeLog

2007-06-29 : Initial release

Vulnerability Management

Subscribe to VUPEN VNS and receive real-time alerts when new advisories or patches relevant to your systems and network configurations are available.

Feedback

If you have additional information or corrections for this security advisory please submit them via our contact form.

Vulnerability Alerting

Free 14-Day Trial

Latest News

>> 2009-07-06

Microsoft Windows 0-Day
Flaw Exploited in the Wild

>> 2009-06-10

VUPEN Security Research
Discovered Critical Flaws
in Adobe Acrobat and MS
Office Word

>> 2009-06-02

VUPEN Security Research
Discovered Critical Flaws
in ACDSee Products

>> 2009-05-22

VUPEN Discovered Two
Critical Vulnerabilities in
Novell GroupWise 8 / 7

More Informations