Title : OpenOffice.org TIFF Tags Processing Command Execution Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3184 CVE ID : CVE-2007-2834
Rated as : Critical
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2007-09-18
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in OpenOffice.org, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by an integer overflow error when processing the TIFF directory entries for certain tags, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted document.
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