OpenOffice.org: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

OpenOffice.org: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code An integer overflow vulnerability has been reported in OpenOffice.org. openoffice openoffice-bin 2008-07-09 2008-07-09 225723 remote 2.4.1 2.4.1 2.4.1 2.4.1

OpenOffice.org is an open source office productivity suite, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, data charting, formula editing, and file conversion facilities.

Sean Larsson (iDefense Labs) reported an integer overflow in the function rtl_allocateMemory() in the file sal/rtl/source/alloc_global.c.

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted document, possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All OpenOffice.org users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/openoffice-2.4.1"

All OpenOffice.org binary users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/openoffice-bin-2.4.1"

CVE-2008-2152 p-y p-y p-y