CVE-2007-2834

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2007-09-17
Bugzilla:
251967: CVE-2007-2834 openoffice.org TIFF parsing heap overflow

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Integer overflow in the TIFF parser in OpenOffice.org (OOo) before 2.3; and Sun StarOffice 6, 7, and 8 Office Suite (StarSuite); allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a TIFF file with crafted values of unspecified length fields, which triggers allocation of an incorrect amount of memory, resulting in a heap-based buffer overflow.

Find out more about CVE-2007-2834 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (openoffice.org) RHSA-2007:0848 2007-09-18
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (openoffice.org) RHSA-2007:0848 2007-09-18
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (openoffice.org) RHSA-2007:0848 2007-09-18
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RHSA-2007:0848 2007-09-18

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