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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.61519
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2008:0835
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2008:0835.

OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite that includes desktop
applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager,
formula editor, and a drawing program.

A numeric truncation error was found in the OpenOffice.org memory
allocator. If a carefully crafted file was opened by a victim, an attacker
could use this flaw to crash OpenOffice.org or, possibly, execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2008-3282)

All users of openoffice.org are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0835.html
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Risk factor : Critical

CVSS Score:
9.3

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-3282
1020764
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020764
30866
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30866
31640
http://secunia.com/advisories/31640
31646
http://secunia.com/advisories/31646
31778
http://secunia.com/advisories/31778
ADV-2008-2449
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2449
FEDORA-2008-7531
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00494.html
FEDORA-2008-7680
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00120.html
RHSA-2008:0835
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0835.html
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=92217
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455867
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458056
openoffice-rtlallocatememory-code-execution(44742)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44742
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11345
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11345
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