CVE-2006-5870

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-5870
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-12-31 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-17 21:45:00 UTC
DescriptionMultiple integer overflows in OpenOffice.org (OOo) 2.0.4 and earlier, and possibly other versions before 2.1.0; and StarOffice 6 through 8; allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (a) WMF or (b) EMF file that triggers heap-based buffer overflows in (1) wmf/winwmf.cxx, during processing of META_ESCAPE records; and wmf/enhwmf.cxx, during processing of (2) EMR_POLYPOLYGON and (3) EMR_POLYPOLYGON16 records.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-189

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openoffice Openoffice All All All All
Application Sun Staroffice 6.0 All All All
Application Sun Staroffice 7.0 All All All
Application Sun Staroffice 8.0 All All All
Application Sun Staroffice 6.0 All All All
Application Sun Staroffice 7.0 All All All
Application Sun Staroffice 8.0 All All All

References

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SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
SGI Advanced Linux Environment Multiple Updates - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Search by bug number CONFIRM www.openoffice.org Patch
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
OpenOffice.org Office Suite Integer Overflow in Processing WMF/EMF Files Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code - SecurityTracker SECTRACK securitytracker.com
[SECURITY] Fedora Core 6 Update: openoffice.org-2.0.4-5.5.10 | FedoraNEWS.ORG FEDORA fedoranews.org
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- OpenOffice.org: EMF/WMF file handling vulnerabilities GENTOO security.gentoo.org
#102735: Security Vulnerability With StarOffice/StarSuite Versions 6, 7 and 8 Related to the '.wmf' File Format SUNALERT sunsolve.sun.com
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32610 OSVDB osvdb.org
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issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-905 CONFIRM issues.rpath.com
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Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-03-14Mark J CoxRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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