SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA25648

VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/25648/

CRITICAL: Highly critical

IMPACT: System access

WHERE: >From remote

SOFTWARE:
OpenOffice 1.1.x - http://secunia.com/product/302/
OpenOffice.org 2.x - http://secunia.com/product/6157/
OpenOffice 1.0.x - http://secunia.com/product/303/

DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been reported in OpenOffice, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the parsing of RTF files and can be exploited to cause a heap based buffer overflow via a specially crafted RTF file. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

SOLUTION: Do not open untrusted RTF files.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Reported in a Debian advisory crediting John Heasman.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://www.us.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1307