Beschreibung: | Description:
The remote host is missing an update to openoffice.org-amd64 announced via advisory USN-677-1.
A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 7.10 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.10
This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.
Details follow:
Multiple memory overflow flaws were discovered in OpenOffice.org's handling of WMF and EMF files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, a remote attacker might be able to execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2008-2237, CVE-2008-2238)
Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that senddoc, as included in OpenOffice.org, created temporary files in an insecure way. Local users could exploit a race condition to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. (CVE-2008-4937)
Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: openoffice.org-core 2.0.2-2ubuntu12.7-2
Ubuntu 7.10: openoffice.org-core 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.5
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: openoffice.org-common 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1 openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1
Ubuntu 8.10: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-11ubuntu2.1
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart OpenOffice.org to effect the necessary changes.
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-677-1
Risk factor : Critical
CVSS Score: 9.3
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