Secunia Advisory: SA25648
Release Date: 2007-06-13
Critical: Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched
Software: OpenOffice 1.0.x
OpenOffice 1.1.x
OpenOffice.org 2.x
CVE reference: CVE-2007-0245 (Secunia mirror)
Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in OpenOffice, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the parsing of RTF files and can be exploited to cause a heap based buffer overflow via a specially crafted RTF file.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
Solution:
Do not open untrusted RTF files.
Bollettino Secunia
Release Date: 2007-06-13
Critical: Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched
Software: OpenOffice 1.0.x
OpenOffice 1.1.x
OpenOffice.org 2.x
CVE reference: CVE-2007-0245 (Secunia mirror)
Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in OpenOffice, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the parsing of RTF files and can be exploited to cause a heap based buffer overflow via a specially crafted RTF file.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
Solution:
Do not open untrusted RTF files.
Bollettino Secunia