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Debian DSA-2570-1 : openoffice.org - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62778

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Synopsis

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

Description

High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab discovered multiple NULL pointer dereferences based vulnerabilities in OpenOffice.org which could cause application crash or even arbitrary code execution using specially crafted files. Affected file types are LWP (Lotus Word Pro), ODG, PPT (PowerPoint 2003) and XLS (Excel 2003).

Solution

Upgrade the openoffice.org packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze8.

openoffice.org package has been replaced by libreoffice in testing (wheezy) and unstable (sid) distributions.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/openoffice.org

https://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2570

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62778

File Name: debian_DSA-2570.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/1/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openoffice.org, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/31/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4233

DSA: 2570