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Debian DSA-2099-1 : openoffice.org - buffer overflows

high Nessus Plugin ID 48928

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Synopsis

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

Description

Charlie Miller has discovered two vulnerabilities in OpenOffice.org Impress, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system and execute arbitrary code.

 - An integer truncation error when parsing certain content can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted file.
 - A short integer overflow error when parsing certain content can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted file.

Solution

Upgrade the openoffice.org packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny) these problems have been fixed in version 2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny8.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2099

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 48928

File Name: debian_DSA-2099.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/31/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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:5.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/30/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2935, CVE-2010-2936

BID: 42202

DSA: 2099