USN-1496-1: OpenOffice.org vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• openoffice.org - Office productivity suite

Details

A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the Lotus Word Pro import
filter in OpenOffice.org. The default compiler options for affected
releases should reduce the vulnerability to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2685)

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala discovered that OpenOffice.org could be made to crash
if it opened a specially crafted Word document. (CVE-2011-2713)

Integer overflows were discovered in the graphics loading code of several
different image types. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted file, an attacker could cause OpenOffice.org to crash or possibly
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the
program. (CVE-2012-1149)

Sven Jacobi discovered an integer overflow when processing Escher graphics
records. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted PowerPoint
file, an attacker could cause OpenOffice.org to crash or possibly execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
(CVE-2012-2334)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 10.04

• openoffice.org-core - 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.3

After a standard system update you need to restart OpenOffice.org to make
all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2011-2685
• CVE-2011-2713
• CVE-2012-1149
• CVE-2012-2334

Related notices

• USN-1495-1: libreoffice-l10n-common, libreoffice-l10n, libreoffice, libreoffice-core