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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-5870: OpenOffice.org: EMF/WMF file handling vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-5870: OpenOffice.org: EMF/WMF file handling vulnerabilities

Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

12/31/2006

Created

07/25/2018

Added

10/30/2017

Modified

10/30/2017

Description

Multiple integer overflows in OpenOffice.org (OOo) 2.0.4 and earlier, and possibly other versions before 2.1.0; and StarOffice 6 through 8; allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (a) WMF or (b) EMF file that triggers heap-based buffer overflows in (1) wmf/winwmf.cxx, during processing of META_ESCAPE records; and wmf/enhwmf.cxx, during processing of (2) EMR_POLYPOLYGON and (3) EMR_POLYPOLYGON16 records.

Solution(s)

gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-office-openoffice
gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-office-openoffice-bin

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2006-5870
220288
CVE - 2006-5870
DSA-1246
200701-07
OVAL8280
OVAL9145
RHSA-2007:0001
20070101-01-P
SUSE-SA:2007:001
31257

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