Ubuntu Security Notice USN-609-1

6th May, 2008

hsqldb, openoffice.org/-amd64 vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 7.10
• Ubuntu 7.04
• Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

Software description

• hsqldb
• openoffice.org
• openoffice.org-amd64

Details

It was discovered that arbitrary Java methods were not filtered out when
opening databases in OpenOffice.org. If a user were tricked into running
a specially crafted query, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary
Java with user privileges. (CVE-2007-4575)

Multiple memory overflow flaws were discovered in OpenOffice.org's
handling of Quattro Pro, EMF, and OLE 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-2007-5745,
CVE-2007-5746, CVE-2007-5747, CVE-2008-0320)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:

Ubuntu 7.10:

libhsqldb-java 1.8.0.8-1ubuntu1.1

openoffice.org-core 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.4

Ubuntu 7.04:

libhsqldb-java 1.8.0.7-1ubuntu2.1

openoffice.org-core 2.2.0-1ubuntu6

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:

openoffice.org2-base 2.0.2-2ubuntu12.6

libhsqldb-java 1.8.0.2-1ubuntu1.1

openoffice.org-core 2.0.2-2ubuntu12.6

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

References

CVE-2007-4575, CVE-2007-5745, CVE-2007-5746, CVE-2007-5747, CVE-2008-0320