Summary
The remote host is missing an update to openoffice.org announced via advisory DSA 2473-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202473-1
Insight
Tielei Wang discovered that OpenOffice.org does not allocate a large enough memory region when processing a specially crafted JPEG object, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow and potentially arbitrary code execution.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze5.
For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:3.4.5-1 of the libreoffice package.
We recommend that you upgrade your openoffice.org packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2012-1149 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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