From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Sep 18 2007 - 15:17:06 CDT

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TITLE:
OpenOffice 2 TIFF Parsing Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26816

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26816/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
OpenOffice.org 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/6157/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in OpenOffice, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to integer overflows when
processing certain tags within TIFF images. This can be exploited to
cause heap-based buffer overflows by e.g. tricking a user into
opening a specially crafted document.

Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.3.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.3.
http://download.openoffice.org/index.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Discovered by an anonymous researcher and reported via iDefense Labs.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
OpenOffice.org:
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2007-2834.html

iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=593

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