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Charlie Miller discovered several heap overflows in PPT processing. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted PPT document, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Ubuntu 10.10 was not affected. (CVE-2010-2935, CVE-2010-2936) Marc Schoenefeld discovered that directory traversal was not correctly handled in XSLT, OXT, JAR, or ZIP files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, a remote attacker overwrite arbitrary files, possibly leading to arbitrary code execution with user privileges. (CVE-2010-3450) Dan Rosenberg discovered multiple heap overflows in RTF and DOC processing. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted RTF or DOC document, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2010-3451, CVE-2010-3452, CVE-2010-3453, CVE-2010-3454) Dmitri Gribenko discovered that OpenOffice.org did not correctly handle LD_LIBRARY_PATH in various tools. If a local attacker tricked a user or automated system into using OpenOffice.org from an attacker-controlled directory, they could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2010-3689) Marc Schoenefeld discovered that OpenOffice.org did not correctly process PNG images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2010-4253) It was discovered that OpenOffice.org did not correctly process TGA images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2010-4643)

openoffice.org vulnerabilities on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS , Ubuntu 9.10 , Ubuntu 10.04 LTS , Ubuntu 10.10