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OpenOffice "rtl_allocateMemory()" Integer Overflow Vulnerability


Secunia ID

SA30599

CVE-ID

CVE-2008-2152

Release Date

10 Jun 2008

Last Change

11 Jun 2008

Criticality

Highly Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Software

OpenOffice.org 2.x

Where

From remote

Impact
System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in OpenOffice, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error in "rtl_allocateMemory()" and can be exploited to cause heap-based buffer overflows via a specially crafted document.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 2.0 to 2.4.

Solution

Update to version 2.4.1.

Reported by

Sean Larsson, iDefense Labs

Original Advisory

OpenOffice:
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2008-2152.html

iDefense:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=714