A vulnerability has been identified in OpenOffice.org, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by an integer overflow error when processing the TIFF directory entries for certain tags, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted document.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by iDefense Labs.
ChangeLog
2007-09-18 : Initial release
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