Summary
The remote host is missing an update to openoffice.org announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:006.
Solution
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:006
Insight
Heap-based overflow on functions to manipulate WMF and EMF files in OpenOffice.org documments enables remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on documments holding certain crafted either WMF or EMF files (CVE-2008-2237) (CVE-2008-2238).
This update provide the fix for these security issues and further openoffice.org-voikko package has been updated as it depends on openoffice.org packages.
Affected: 2008.0, 2008.1
Severity
Classification
-
CVE CVE-2008-2237, CVE-2008-2238 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Related Vulnerabilities
- Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:169 (libtiff)
- Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:085 (gstreamer0.10-plugins-base)
- Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:050-1 (python-pycrypto)
- Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:035 (gstreamer0.10-plugins-good)
- Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:101 (xpdf)