7.9 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
9.3 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.087 Low
EPSS
Percentile
94.4%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0537
OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite that includes desktop
applications such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager,
formula editor, and drawing program.
Sean Larsson found a heap overflow flaw in the OpenOffice memory allocator.
If a carefully crafted file was opened by a victim, an attacker could use
the flaw to crash OpenOffice.org or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2008-2152)
All users of OpenOffice.org are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which contain a backported fix to correct this issue.
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-June/077210.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-June/077211.html
Affected packages:
openoffice.org2-base
openoffice.org2-calc
openoffice.org2-core
openoffice.org2-draw
openoffice.org2-emailmerge
openoffice.org2-graphicfilter
openoffice.org2-impress
openoffice.org2-javafilter
openoffice.org2-langpack-af_ZA
openoffice.org2-langpack-ar
openoffice.org2-langpack-bg_BG
openoffice.org2-langpack-bn
openoffice.org2-langpack-ca_ES
openoffice.org2-langpack-cs_CZ
openoffice.org2-langpack-cy_GB
openoffice.org2-langpack-da_DK
openoffice.org2-langpack-de
openoffice.org2-langpack-el_GR
openoffice.org2-langpack-es
openoffice.org2-langpack-et_EE
openoffice.org2-langpack-eu_ES
openoffice.org2-langpack-fi_FI
openoffice.org2-langpack-fr
openoffice.org2-langpack-ga_IE
openoffice.org2-langpack-gl_ES
openoffice.org2-langpack-gu_IN
openoffice.org2-langpack-he_IL
openoffice.org2-langpack-hi_IN
openoffice.org2-langpack-hr_HR
openoffice.org2-langpack-hu_HU
openoffice.org2-langpack-it
openoffice.org2-langpack-ja_JP
openoffice.org2-langpack-ko_KR
openoffice.org2-langpack-lt_LT
openoffice.org2-langpack-ms_MY
openoffice.org2-langpack-nb_NO
openoffice.org2-langpack-nl
openoffice.org2-langpack-nn_NO
openoffice.org2-langpack-pa_IN
openoffice.org2-langpack-pl_PL
openoffice.org2-langpack-pt_BR
openoffice.org2-langpack-pt_PT
openoffice.org2-langpack-ru
openoffice.org2-langpack-sk_SK
openoffice.org2-langpack-sl_SI
openoffice.org2-langpack-sr_CS
openoffice.org2-langpack-sv
openoffice.org2-langpack-ta_IN
openoffice.org2-langpack-th_TH
openoffice.org2-langpack-tr_TR
openoffice.org2-langpack-zh_CN
openoffice.org2-langpack-zh_TW
openoffice.org2-langpack-zu_ZA
openoffice.org2-math
openoffice.org2-pyuno
openoffice.org2-testtools
openoffice.org2-writer
openoffice.org2-xsltfilter
Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0537