Debian DSA-1880-1 : openoffice.org - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 44745

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenOffice.org office suite. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2009-0200 Dyon Balding of Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability, which can be exploited by opening a specially crafted Microsoft Word document.

When reading a Microsoft Word document, a bug in the parser of sprmTDelete records can result in an integer underflow that may lead to heap-based buffer overflows.

Successful exploitation may allow arbitrary code execution in the context of the OpenOffice.org process.

- CVE-2009-0201 Dyon Balding of Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability, which can be exploited by opening a specially crafted Microsoft Word document.

When reading a Microsoft Word document, a bug in the parser of sprmTDelete records can result in heap-based buffer overflows.

Successful exploitation may allow arbitrary code execution in the context of the OpenOffice.org process.

- CVE-2009-2139 A vulnerability has been discovered in the parser of EMF files of OpenOffice/Go-oo 2.x and 3.x that can be triggered by a specially crafted document and lead to the execution of arbitrary commands the privileges of the user running OpenOffice.org/Go-oo.

This vulnerability does not exist in the packages for oldstable, testing and unstable.

Solution

Upgrade the Openoffice.org package.

For the old stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch7.

For the stable distribution (lenny) these problems have been fixed in version 2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny3 and higher.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-0200

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-0201

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-2139

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1880

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 44745

File Name: debian_DSA-1880.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openoffice.org, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/4/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0200, CVE-2009-0201, CVE-2009-2139

BID: 36200

CWE: 119, 189, 94

DSA: 1880