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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.61128
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2008:0537
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2008:0537.

OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite that includes desktop
applications such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager,
formula editor, and drawing program.

Sean Larsson found a heap overflow flaw in the OpenOffice memory allocator.
If a carefully crafted file was opened by a victim, an attacker could use
the flaw to crash OpenOffice.org or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2008-2152)

All users of OpenOffice.org are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which contain a backported fix to correct this issue.

Solution:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0537.html
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Risk factor : Critical

CVSS Score:
9.3

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-2152
BugTraq ID: 29622
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29622
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00385.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00473.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00499.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-05.xml
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=714
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:137
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:138
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9787
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0537.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0538.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020219
http://secunia.com/advisories/30599
http://secunia.com/advisories/30633
http://secunia.com/advisories/30634
http://secunia.com/advisories/30635
http://secunia.com/advisories/31029
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-237944-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1773
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1804/references
XForce ISS Database: openoffice-rtlallocatememory-bo(42957)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42957
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