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OpenOffice.org Word Document Table Parsing Buffer Overflow

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in OpenOffice.org, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user’s system. The vulnerability is caused by a boundary error when parsing certain records and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted document. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code. OpenOffice 3.1 is affected.

 

You can download this advisory from the following link: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/80900/secunia-openofficeoverflow.txt

Source: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/80900/OpenOffice.org-Word-Document-Table-Parsing-Buffer-Overflow.html

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