Debian Security Advisory 1880 openoffice.org – several vulnerabilities

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Article Source Debian Security Advisories
September 3, 2009, 5:00 pm

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenOffice.org office suite. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

  • CVE-2009-0200

    Dyon Balding of Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability, which can be exploited by opening a specially crafted Microsoft Word document.

    When reading a Microsoft Word document, a bug in the parser of sprmTDelete records can result in an integer underflow that may lead to heap-based buffer overflows.

    Successful exploitation may allow arbitrary code execution in the context of the OpenOffice.org process…