Bug 201338

Summary:	>app-office/openoffice(bin)-2.3.1 (CVE-2007-4575)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Lars Hartmann <lars>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://secunia.com/advisories/27928/
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Lars Hartmann 2007-12-05 10:07:11 UTC

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 an unspecified error in the HSQLDB database engine and can be exploited to execute arbitrary static Java code via a specially crafted database document.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to version 2.3.1.

Solution:
Update to version 2.3.1 (HSQLDB 1.8.0.9).
http://download.openoffice.org/index.html

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-12-05 10:27:14 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 200771 ***