Summary
The remote host is missing an update to openoffice.org announced via advisory DSA 1246-1.
John Heasman from Next Generation Security Software discovered a heap overflow in the handling of Windows Metafiles in OpenOffice.org, the free office suite, which could lead to a denial of service and potentially execution of arbitrary code.
Solution
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.3-9sarge4.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.4-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your openofffice.org package.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201246-1
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2006-5870 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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