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Mandriva Advisories MDKSA-2006:118 : OpenOffice.org

 

Updated OpenOffice.org packages fix various vulnerabilities

July 7th, 2006

 

OpenOffice.org 1.1.x up to 1.1.5 and 2.0.x before 2.0.3 allows user-complicit

 

attackers to conduct unauthorized activities via an OpenOffice document with

 

a malicious BASIC macro, which is executed without prompting the user.

 

(CVE-2006-2198)

 

 

 

An unspecified vulnerability in Java Applets in OpenOffice.org 1.1.x up to

 

1.1.5 and 2.0.x before 2.0.3 allows user-complicit attackers to escape the

 

Java sandbox and conduct unauthorized activities via certain applets in

 

OpenOffice documents. (CVE-2006-2199)

 

 

 

Heap-based buffer overflow in OpenOffice.org 1.1.x up to 1.1.5 and 2.0.x

 

before 2.0.3 allows user-complicit attackers to execute arbitrary code via a

 

crafted OpenOffice XML document that is not properly handled by (1) Calc,

 

(2) Draw, (3) Impress, (4) Math, or (5) Writer, aka "File Format / Buffer

 

Overflow Vulnerability." (CVE-2006-3117)

 

 

 

Updated packages are patched to address this issue.

 

 

The released versions of Mandriva GNU/Linux affected are:

  • CS3.0
  • 2006.0

Full information about this advisory, including the updated packages, is available at:

www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:118

 

Other references:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2198

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2199

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3117

 

Posted automatically by aru (mdksec2mub v: mdksec2mub,v 1.3 2006/07/02 09:40:56 aru Exp $)

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