The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0705 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.

    An integer overflow flaw, leading to a buffer overflow, was found in the     way OpenOffice.org processed an invalid Escher graphics records length in     Microsoft Office PowerPoint documents. An attacker could provide a     specially-crafted Microsoft Office PowerPoint document that, when opened,     would cause OpenOffice.org to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code     with the privileges of the user running OpenOffice.org. (CVE-2012-2334)

    Multiple integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows,     were found in the JPEG, PNG, and BMP image file reader implementations in     OpenOffice.org. An attacker could provide a specially-crafted JPEG, PNG,     or BMP image file that, when opened in an OpenOffice.org application, would     cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with     the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2012-1149)

    Upstream acknowledges Sven Jacobi as the original reporter of     CVE-2012-2334, and Tielei Wang via Secunia SVCRP as the original reporter     of CVE-2012-1149.

    All OpenOffice.org users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,     which contain backported patches to correct these issues. 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 5 / 6 : openoffice.org (RHSA-2012:0705)

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