Package : openoffice.org Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : local (remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-5870 Debian Bug : 405679 405986
John Heasman from Next Generation Security Software discovered a heap overflow in the handling of Windows Metafiles in OpenOffice.org, the free office suite, which could lead to a denial of service and potentially execution of arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.3-9sarge4.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.4-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your openofffice.org package.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given at the end of this advisory:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------