metadata/glsa/glsa-200607-12.xml

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<glsa id="200607-12">
  <title>OpenOffice.org: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    OpenOffice.org is affected by three security vulnerabilities which can be
    exploited to allow the execution of arbitrary code by a remote attacker.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">OpenOffice.org</product>
  <announced>July 28, 2006</announced>
  <revised>July 28, 2006: 01</revised>
  <bug>138545</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-office/openoffice" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.0.3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.0.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="app-office/openoffice-bin" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.0.3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.0.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    OpenOffice.org is an open source office productivity suite, including
    word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, data charting,
    formula editing, and file conversion facilities.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Internal security audits by OpenOffice.org have discovered three
    security vulnerabilities related to Java applets, macros and the XML
    file format parser.
    </p>
    <ul><li>Specially crafted Java applets can
    break through the "sandbox".</li>
    <li>Specially crafted macros make it
    possible to inject BASIC code into documents which is executed when the
    document is loaded.</li>
    <li>Loading a malformed XML file can cause a
    buffer overflow.</li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    An attacker might exploit these vulnerabilities to escape the Java
    sandbox, execute arbitrary code or BASIC code with the permissions of
    the user running OpenOffice.org.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    Disabling Java applets will protect against the vulnerability in the
    handling of Java applets. There are no workarounds for the macro and
    file format vulnerabilities.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All OpenOffice.org users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-office/openoffice-2.0.3&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin-20060629.html">OpenOffice.org Security Bulletin 2006-06-29</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2006-2199">CVE-2006-2199</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2006-2198">CVE-2006-2198</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2006-3117">CVE-2006-3117</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:40:14 +0000">
    dizzutch
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:32:57 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>