Executive Summary



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Summary
Title OpenOffice.org vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-406-1 First vendor Publication 2007-01-12
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2007-01-12
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 5.10 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

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 5.10:
openoffice.org2-core 1.9.129-0.1ubuntu4.2

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
openoffice.org-core 2.0.2-2ubuntu12.2

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

An integer overflow was discovered in OpenOffice.org's handling of WMF files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted WMF file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-406-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8280
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8280
Title: OpenOffice_org WMF buffer overflows
Description: Multiple integer overflows in OpenOffice.org (OOo) 2.0.4 and earlier, and possibly other versions before 2.1.0; and StarOffice 6 through 8; allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (a) WMF or (b) EMF file that triggers heap-based buffer overflows in (1) wmf/winwmf.cxx, during processing of META_ESCAPE records; and wmf/enhwmf.cxx, during processing of (2) EMR_POLYPOLYGON and (3) EMR_POLYPOLYGON16 records.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-5870
Version: 5
Platform(s): Novell Linux Desktop 9
SUSE Linux 10.1
SUSE Linux 10.0
SUSE Linux Professional 9.3
SUSE Linux Desktop 1.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10
Product(s): OpenOffice_org1
OpenOffice_org1-ar
OpenOffice_org1-ca
OpenOffice_org1-cs
OpenOffice_org1-da
OpenOffice_org1-de
OpenOffice_org1-el
OpenOffice_org1-en
OpenOffice_org1-es
OpenOffice_org1-et
OpenOffice_org1-fi
OpenOffice_org1-fr
OpenOffice_org1-gnome
OpenOffice_org1-hu
OpenOffice_org1-it
OpenOffice_org1-ja
OpenOffice_org1-kde
OpenOffice_org1-ko
OpenOffice_org1-nl
OpenOffice_org1-pl
OpenOffice_org1-pt
OpenOffice_org1-ru
OpenOffice_org1-sk
OpenOffice_org1-sl
OpenOffice_org1-sv
OpenOffice_org1-tr
OpenOffice_org1-zh-CN
OpenOffice_org1-zh-TW
OpenOffice_org
OpenOffice_org-af
OpenOffice_org-be-BY
OpenOffice_org-bg
OpenOffice_org-ca
OpenOffice_org-cs
OpenOffice_org-cy
OpenOffice_org-da
OpenOffice_org-de
OpenOffice_org-el
OpenOffice_org-en
OpenOffice_org-en-GB
OpenOffice_org-es
OpenOffice_org-et
OpenOffice_org-fi
OpenOffice_org-fr
OpenOffice_org-galleries
OpenOffice_org-gnome
OpenOffice_org-gu-IN
OpenOffice_org-hr
OpenOffice_org-hu
OpenOffice_org-hunspell
OpenOffice_org-it
OpenOffice_org-ja
OpenOffice_org-kde
OpenOffice_org-ko
OpenOffice_org-mono
OpenOffice_org-nb
OpenOffice_org-nl
OpenOffice_org-nn
OpenOffice_org-officebean
OpenOffice_org-pa-IN
OpenOffice_org-pl
OpenOffice_org-pt
OpenOffice_org-pt-BR
OpenOffice_org-ru
OpenOffice_org-sk
OpenOffice_org-sl
OpenOffice_org-sv
OpenOffice_org-tr
OpenOffice_org-vi
OpenOffice_org-xh
OpenOffice_org-zh-CN
OpenOffice_org-zh-TW
OpenOffice_org-zu
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9145
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9145
Title: Multiple integer overflows in OpenOffice.org (OOo) 2.0.4 and earlier, and possibly other versions before 2.1.0; and StarOffice 6 through 8; allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (a) WMF or (b) EMF file that triggers heap-based buffer overflows in (1) wmf/winwmf.cxx, during processing of META_ESCAPE records; and wmf/enhwmf.cxx, during processing of (2) EMR_POLYPOLYGON and (3) EMR_POLYPOLYGON16 records.
Description: Multiple integer overflows in OpenOffice.org (OOo) 2.0.4 and earlier, and possibly other versions before 2.1.0; and StarOffice 6 through 8; allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (a) WMF or (b) EMF file that triggers heap-based buffer overflows in (1) wmf/winwmf.cxx, during processing of META_ESCAPE records; and wmf/enhwmf.cxx, during processing of (2) EMR_POLYPOLYGON and (3) EMR_POLYPOLYGON16 records.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-5870
Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
CentOS Linux 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 31
Application 3

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for openoffice.org MDKSA-2007:006 (openoffice.org)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDKSA_2007_006.nasl
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for openoffice.org/-amd64, openoffice.org2/-amd64 vulnerabilit...
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_406_1.nasl
2009-01-28 Name : SuSE Update for OpenOffice_org SUSE-SA:2007:001
File : nvt/gb_suse_2007_001.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200701-07 (openoffice)
File : nvt/glsa_200701_07.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1246-1 (openoffice.org)
File : nvt/deb_1246_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
32611 OpenOffice.org (OOo) wmf/enhwmf.cxx EMF Multiple Record Handling Overflow

32610 OpenOffice.org (OOo) wmf/winwmf.cxx WMF META_ESCAPE Record Parsing Overflow

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2007-0001.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-12-13 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_OpenOffice_org-2407.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-10 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-406-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-10-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_OpenOffice_org-2408.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-02-18 Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandrake_MDKSA-2007-006.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-02-18 Name : The remote host is missing a vendor-supplied security patch
File : suse_SA_2007_001.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-01-17 Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2007-005.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-01-17 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200701-07.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-01-11 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1246.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-01-08 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2007-0001.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-01-08 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2007-0001.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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