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Bug#405986: CVE-2006-5870: OpenOffice WMF/EMF Integer Overflow Vulnerability



close 405986 1.1.3-9sarge4
close 405986 2.0.4-1
reassign 405986 openoffice.org
merge 405986 405679
thanks

Hi,

Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> >>From http://secunia.com/advisories/23612/ :
> 
> A vulnerability has been reported in OpenOffice, which potentially
> can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
> 
> The vulnerability is caused due to integer overflows within the
> processor for WMF/EMF files. This can be exploited to cause a
> heap-based buffer overflow by e.g. tricking a user into opening a
> specially crafted WMF/EMF file.
> 
> Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code.
> 
> A patch is at
> http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=70042
> 
> Please mention the CVE id in the changelog.

*yawns*

Damnit. Go read the BTS. Then you would have seen
http://bugs.debian.org/405679.

Marking this as fixed in the appropriate versions
(which I already told at #405679; I already told Joey now
that he's back that he can release the advisory)

Gr�gards,

Ren�- 
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