CVE-2006-5870

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2007-01-03
Bugzilla:
1618229: CVE-2006-5870 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Multiple integer overflows in OpenOffice.org (OOo) 2.0.4 and earlier, and possibly other versions before 2.1.0; and StarOffice 6 through 8; allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (a) WMF or (b) EMF file that triggers heap-based buffer overflows in (1) wmf/winwmf.cxx, during processing of META_ESCAPE records; and wmf/enhwmf.cxx, during processing of (2) EMR_POLYPOLYGON and (3) EMR_POLYPOLYGON16 records.

Find out more about CVE-2006-5870 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (openoffice.org) RHSA-2007:0001 2007-01-03
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (openoffice.org) RHSA-2007:0001 2007-01-03

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