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>> Gentoo Security Update Fixes OpenOffice.org HSQLDB Code Execution

Title : Gentoo Security Update Fixes OpenOffice.org HSQLDB Code Execution
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0007
CVE ID : CVE-2007-4575
Rated as : Critical

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-01-02

Technical Description

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A vulnerability has been identified in Gentoo, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise an affected system. This issue is caused by an error in OpenOffice.org. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-4092

Affected Products

app-office/openoffice versions prior to 2.3.1
app-office/openoffice-bin versions prior to 2.3.1
dev-db/hsqldb versions prior to 1.8.0.9

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=app-office/openoffice-2.3.1"
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=app-office/openoffice-bin-2.3.1"
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=dev-db/hsqldb-1.8.0.9"

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0007
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200712-25.xml

ChangeLog

2008-01-02 : Initial release

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