USN-677-1: OpenOffice.org vulnerabilities

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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)

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

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
8.10 intrepid	openoffice.org-core – 1:2.4.1-11ubuntu2.1
8.04 hardy	openoffice.org-common – 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1
8.04 hardy	openoffice.org-core – 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1
7.10 gutsy	openoffice.org-core – 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.5
6.06 dapper	openoffice.org-core – 2.0.2-2ubuntu12.7-2

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