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=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-482-1 July 10, 2007 openoffice.org, openoffice.org-amd64 vulnerability CVE-2007-0245 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 6.10 Ubuntu 7.04 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: openoffice.org-core 2.0.2-2ubuntu12.4 openoffice.org2-base 2.0.2-2ubuntu12.4 Ubuntu 6.10: openoffice.org-core 2.0.4-0ubuntu6 Ubuntu 7.04: openoffice.org-core 2.2.0-1ubuntu4 After a standard system upgrade you need to restart OpenOffice, or reboot your computer, to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: John Heasman discovered that OpenOffice did not correctly validate the sizes of tags in RTF documents. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.