Bug 1618229 (CVE-2006-5870)

Summary:	CVE-2006-5870 security flaw
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Stephen Herr <sherr>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 12:43:28 UTC

Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.

Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 16:51:17 UTC

MITRE description:

Multiple integer overflows in OpenOffice.org (OOo) 2.0.4 and earlier, and possibly other versions before 2.1.0; and StarOffice 6 through 8; allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (a) WMF or (b) EMF file that triggers heap-based buffer overflows in (1) wmf/winwmf.cxx, during processing of META_ESCAPE records; and wmf/enhwmf.cxx, during processing of (2) EMR_POLYPOLYGON and (3) EMR_POLYPOLYGON16 records.

Comment 2 Stephen Herr 2019-06-13 19:31:02 UTC

Statement:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.