USN-677-1: OpenOffice.org vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu 8.04
• Ubuntu 7.10
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• openoffice.org -
• openoffice.org-amd64 -

Details

Multiple memory overflow flaws were discovered in OpenOffice.org's handling of
WMF and EMF files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted
document, a remote attacker might be able to execute arbitrary code with user
privileges. (CVE-2008-2237, CVE-2008-2238)

Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that senddoc, as included in OpenOffice.org,
created temporary files in an insecure way. Local users could exploit a race
condition to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking
the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. (CVE-2008-4937)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.10

• openoffice.org-core - 1:2.4.1-11ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 8.04

• openoffice.org-common - 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1
• openoffice.org-core - 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 7.10

• openoffice.org-core - 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.5

Ubuntu 6.06

• openoffice.org-core - 2.0.2-2ubuntu12.7-2

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart OpenOffice.org to effect
the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2008-4937
• CVE-2008-2238
• CVE-2008-2237