KLA10280 DoS vulnerability in OpenOffice.org

Multiple critical vulnerabilities have been found in OpenOffice.org. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities

1. An integer overflow can be exploited remotely via specially designed polygons;
2. Improper dictionary handling can be exploited remotely via a specially designed PowerPoint document.

Original advisories

Related products

OpenOffice.org

CVE list

CVE-2010-2936 critical

CVE-2010-2935 critical

Solution

Update to latest version

OpenOffice

Impacts

• ACE

Arbitrary code execution. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to executing by abuser any code or commands at vulnerable machine or process.

• DoS

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.

Affected Products

• OpenOffice.org 2 all versionsOpenOffice.org 3 versions 3.2.1 and earlier