TITLE:
OpenOffice / StarOffice Insecure Temporary File Creation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12302

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12302/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
OpenOffice 1.1.x
http://secunia.com/product/302/
StarOffice 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/3062/

DESCRIPTION:
Secunia has discovered a vulnerability in OpenOffice and StarOffice,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain knowledge of
sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to temporary files being created with
insecure permissions in the "/tmp" folder when open documents are
saved.

Successful exploitation allows an unprivileged user to read arbitrary
users' currently open documents.

The vulnerability affects StarOffice 7 and OpenOffice 1.1.2.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerability has been fixed in Product Update 3 for StarOffice
and a release candidate of OpenOffice 1.1.3.

StarOffice/StarSuite 7_x86 (Solaris):
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/advsearch.do?collection=PATCH&type=collections&max=50&language=en&queryKey5=117073&toDocument=yes

StarOffice/StarSuite 7 (Solaris):
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/advsearch.do?collection=PATCH&type=collections&max=50&language=en&queryKey5=116519&toDocument=yes

StarOffice/StarSuite 7 (Linux):
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/advsearch.do?collection=PATCH&type=collections&max=50&language=en&queryKey5=116518&toDocument=yes

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Discovered by:
Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research.

Independently discovered and reported by "pmladek" while Secunia was
coordinating disclosure with the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2004-5/

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