glsa-201703-01.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201703-01">
  <title>OpenOffice: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in OpenOffice Impress could cause memory
    corruption.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">openoffice</product>
  <announced>2017-03-19</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-03-19</revised>
  <bug>597080</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-office/openoffice-bin" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.1.3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.1.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Apache OpenOffice is an open-source office software suite for word
      processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>An exploitable out-of-bounds vulnerability exists in OpenOffice Impress
      when handling MetaActions.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted
      OpenDocument Presentation .ODP or Presentation Template .OTP file using
      OpenOffice Impress, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code
      with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All OpenOffice users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-office/openoffice-bin-4.1.3"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-1513">CVE-2016-1513</uri>
    <uri link="https://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0051/">
      TALOS-2016-0051
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-02-13T01:25:25Z">whissi</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-03-19T18:32:36Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>