iDefense Security Advisory 04.17.08 - Remote exploitation of a heap based buffer overflow vulnerability in OpenOffice.org's OpenOffice, as included in various vendors' operating system distributions, could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the current user. The vulnerability exists within the importer for files stored using the OLE format. When parsing the "DocumentSummaryInformation" stream, the vulnerable code does not correctly verify the size of a destination buffer before copying data from the file into it. This results in an exploitable heap overflow. iDefense confirmed the existence of this vulnerability in OpenOffice version 2.3.1. Other versions may also be affected.
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