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Multiple memory overflow flaws were discovered in OpenOffice.org's handling of WMF and EMF files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, a remote attacker might be able to execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2008-2237, CVE-2008-2238) Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that senddoc, as included in OpenOffice.org, created temporary files in an insecure way. Local users could exploit a race condition to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. (CVE-2008-4937)

openoffice.org, openoffice.org-amd64 vulnerabilities on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS , Ubuntu 7.10 , Ubuntu 8.04 LTS , Ubuntu 8.10

• https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2008-November/000787.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25