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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.71444
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2012:1136
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2012:1136.

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

Multiple heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the way
OpenOffice.org processed encryption information in the manifest files of
OpenDocument Format files. An attacker could provide a specially-crafted
OpenDocument Format file that, when opened in an OpenOffice.org
application, would cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.
(CVE-2012-2665)

Upstream acknowledges Timo Warns as the original reporter of these issues.

All OpenOffice.org users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All running
instances of OpenOffice.org applications must be restarted for this update
to take effect.

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-2012-1136.html

Risk factor : High

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-2665
BugTraq ID: 54769
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54769
Debian Security Information: DSA-2520 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2520
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-05.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201408-19.xml
http://www.pre-cert.de/advisories/PRE-SA-2012-05.txt
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826077
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2012:1135
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1135.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027331
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027332
http://secunia.com/advisories/50142
http://secunia.com/advisories/50146
http://secunia.com/advisories/50692
http://secunia.com/advisories/60799
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1536-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1537-1
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