Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in OpenOffice.org, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a heap overflow error in the "SwRTFParser::ReadPrtData()" [filter/rtf/swparrtf.cxx] function when processing a malformed "prtdata" tag, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted RTF document [...]

References

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/2166
http://www.openoffice.org/security/CVE-2007-0245.html
http://www.openoffice.org/security/CVE-2007-2754.html
http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/high-risk-vulnerability-in-openoffice-rtf-document-handling/

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by John Heasman (NGSSoftware) and Victor Stinner (INL).

ChangeLog

2007-06-13 : Initial release
2007-06-13 : Updated References

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