Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in OpenOffice, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
OpenOffice TIFF Parsing Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26839
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26839/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
OpenOffice 1.0.x
http://secunia.com/product/303/
OpenOffice 1.1.x
http://secunia.com/product/302/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in OpenOffice, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.
For more information:
SA26816
SOLUTION:
Upgrade to version 2.3.
Currently there is no updated 1.0.x or 1.1.x version.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Discovered by an anonymous researcher and reported via iDefense Labs.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
OpenOffice.org:
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2007-2834.html
iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=593
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA26816:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26816/
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