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openoffice.org: denial of service

Package(s):openoffice.org CVE #(s):CVE-2010-2935 CVE-2010-2936
Created:August 23, 2010 Updated:April 19, 2011
Description: From the Red Hat advisory:

An integer truncation error, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way the OpenOffice.org Impress presentation application sanitized a file's dictionary property items. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially-crafted Microsoft Office PowerPoint file that, when opened, would cause OpenOffice.org Impress to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running OpenOffice.org Impress. (CVE-2010-2935)

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way OpenOffice.org Impress processed polygons in input documents. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially-crafted Microsoft Office PowerPoint file that, when opened, would cause OpenOffice.org Impress to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running OpenOffice.org Impress. (CVE-2010-2936)

Alerts:
SUSE SUSE-SR:2011:007 2011-04-19
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0337-1 2011-04-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0336-1 2011-04-18
Ubuntu USN-1056-1 2011-02-02
SUSE SUSE-SR:2010:024 2010-12-23
Mandriva MDVSA-2010:221 2010-11-05
Debian DSA-2099-1 2010-08-30
CentOS CESA-2010:0643 2010-08-25
CentOS CESA-2010:0643 2010-08-25
Red Hat RHSA-2010:0643-01 2010-08-23
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2010:0732-1 2010-10-18
SUSE SUSE-SR:2010:019 2010-10-25

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