USN-524-1: OpenOffice.org vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 7.04
• Ubuntu 6.10
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

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

Details

An integer overflow was discovered in the TIFF handling code in OpenOffice.
If a user were tricked into loading a malicious TIFF image, 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 versions:

Ubuntu 7.04

• openoffice.org-core - 2.2.0-1ubuntu5

Ubuntu 6.10

• openoffice.org-core - 2.0.4-0ubuntu7

Ubuntu 6.06

• openoffice.org2-base - 2.0.2-2ubuntu12.5
• openoffice.org-core - 2.0.2-2ubuntu12.5

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

References

• CVE-2007-2834