OpenOffice.org Word Document Table Parsing Integer Underflow
2 Sep. 2009
Summary
OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. A vulnerability was discovered in OpenOffice.org, which can potentially compromise a user's system.
Credit:
The information has been provided by Dyon Balding.
The vulnerability is caused due to an integer underflow error when parsing certain records in the document table. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted file. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
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