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RHEL 5 : openoffice.org (RHSA-2012:0411)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 58442

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for openoffice.org.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0411 advisory.

 OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite that includes desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet application, presentation manager, formula editor, and a drawing program. OpenOffice.org embeds a copy of Raptor, which provides parsers for Resource Description Framework (RDF) files.

 An XML External Entity expansion flaw was found in the way Raptor processed RDF files. If OpenOffice.org were to open a specially-crafted file (such as an OpenDocument Format or OpenDocument Presentation file), it could possibly allow a remote attacker to obtain a copy of an arbitrary local file that the user running OpenOffice.org had access to. A bug in the way Raptor handled external entities could cause OpenOffice.org to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running OpenOffice.org. (CVE-2012-0037)

 Red Hat would like to thank Timothy D. Morgan of VSR for reporting this issue.

 All OpenOffice.org users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct this issue. All running instances of OpenOffice.org applications must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL openoffice.org package based on the guidance in RHSA-2012:0411.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?cfd1744f

http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2012-0037.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0411

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=791296

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 58442

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-0411.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/23/2012

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0037

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-mr_in, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-ss_za, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-ure, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-ko_kr, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-st_za, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-pyuno, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-cy_gb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-sk_sk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-bn, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-de, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-sv, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-te_in, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-ts_za, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-ta_in, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-zu_za, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-testtools, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-th_th, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-kn_in, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-as_in, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-impress, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-cs_cz, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-pa_in, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-draw, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-graphicfilter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-nn_no, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-or_in, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-ru, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-nl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-hr_hr, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-xh_za, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-tr_tr, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-ve_za, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-es, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-nb_no, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-sr_cs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-el_gr, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-nr_za, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-javafilter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-math, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-it, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-emailmerge, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-hu_hu, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-pl_pl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-sl_si, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-zh_cn, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-gl_es, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-pt_pt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-ur, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-hi_in, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-af_za, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-writer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-sdk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-ar, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-pt_br, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-et_ee, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-tn_za, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-nso_za, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-da_dk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-lt_lt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-headless, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-he_il, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-calc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-fi_fi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-gu_in, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-eu_es, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-bg_bg, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-ga_ie, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-zh_tw, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-ja_jp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-ca_es, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-sdk-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-xsltfilter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-fr, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-ms_my, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openoffice.org-langpack-ml_in

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/22/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0037

BID: 52681

RHSA: 2012:0411