The host has OpenOffice installed which is prone to heap based buffer overflow vulnerability.

Exploitation will result in buffer overflows via a specially crafted document and allow remote unprivileged user who provides a OpenOffice.org document that is opened by a local user to execute arbitrary commands on the system with the privileges of the user running OpenOffice.org. Impact Level: System

Upgrade to OpenOffice 2.4.1 http://download.openoffice.org/index.html

The flaw is in alloc_global.c file in which rtl_allocateMemory function rounding up allocation requests to be aligned on a 8 byte boundary without checking the rounding results, in an integer overflow condition.

OpenOffice.org 2.x on Windows (Any).

• http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=714
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30599
• http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2008-2152.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25