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Dec 07 2007

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Highly critical Vulnerability in OpenOffice

Posted at 10:48 am under Secunia

Secunia Advisory: SA27928
Release Date: 2007-12-05
Last Update: 2007-12-07
 
Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch
 
Software: OpenOffice.org 2.x
 
CVE reference: CVE-2007-4575 (Secunia mirror)
 
 

Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in OpenOffice, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the improper enforcing of security restrictions when passing SQL queries to the HSQLDB database engine. This can be exploited to call arbitrary static Java methods by tricking the user into executing a specially crafted SQL query contained within a database document.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.3.0. Prior versions are also reportedly affected.

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

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

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