Severe RCE Flaw Disclosed in Popular LibreOffice and OpenOffice Software

It's 2019, and just opening an innocent looking office document file on your system can still allow hackers to compromise your computer. No, I'm not talking about yet another vulnerability in Microsoft Office, but in two other most popular alternatives—LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice —free, ope...

libreoffice: Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the XML manifest encryption handling code

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the XML manifest encryption tag parsing functionality in OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice before 3.5.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Open Document Text .odt file with 1 a child tag within...