CVE-2007-0238

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2007-03-20
Bugzilla:
1618265: CVE-2007-0238 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Stack-based buffer overflow in filter\starcalc\scflt.cxx in the StarCalc parser in OpenOffice.org (OOo) Office Suite before 2.2, and 1.x before 1.1.5 Patch, allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a document with a long Note.

Find out more about CVE-2007-0238 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (openoffice.org) RHSA-2007:0033 2007-03-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (openoffice.org) RHSA-2007:0033 2007-03-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (openoffice.org) RHSA-2007:0069 2007-03-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (openoffice.org) RHSA-2007:0069 2007-03-22

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank John Heasman for reporting this issue.

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