Ubuntu Security Notice USN-482-1
11th July, 2007
openoffice.org(2)/-amd64 vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 7.04
- Ubuntu 6.10
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Details
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.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 7.04:
- openoffice.org-core 2.2.0-1ubuntu4
- Ubuntu 6.10:
- openoffice.org-core 2.0.4-0ubuntu6
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
- openoffice.org2-base 2.0.2-2ubuntu12.4
- openoffice.org-core 2.0.2-2ubuntu12.4
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart OpenOffice, or
reboot your computer, to effect the necessary changes.