Bug 228008

Summary:	CVE-2007-0239 hyperlink escaping issue
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	openoffice.org	Assignee:	Caolan McNamara <caolanm>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	dkovalsk, security-response-team
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	impact=moderate,public=200601027,source=openoffice,public=20070320
Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2007-0033	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2007-03-22 10:40:39 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Mark J. Cox 2007-02-09 14:50:37 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #228002 +++

Some shell characters are not escaped in hyperlinks.  If a victim loads a OO
file that contains a malicious hyperlink it could run shell commands as the
victim if they click on it.  

However this issue is mitigated somewhat as you can't do whitespace and many
special characters, so you're really limited to running single existing commands
with no arguments as the unprivileged user.

        http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=58013
        http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=72543

Already public in the bugs, but will be announced on 20070227

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2007-02-09 14:51:18 UTC

also affects RHEL3

Comment 2 Caolan McNamara 2007-02-14 14:55:22 UTC

RHEL4: openoffice.org2-2.0.4-5.6.0

1.1.X's to follow

Comment 3 Caolan McNamara 2007-02-20 09:37:16 UTC

RHEL-4: openoffice.org-1.1.5-10.6.0.EL4

RHEL-3 to follow

Comment 4 Caolan McNamara 2007-02-20 13:46:15 UTC

RHEL-3: openoffice.org-1.1.2-38.2.0.EL3

Comment 8 Mark J. Cox 2007-03-22 08:02:55 UTC

well the embargo looks busted by http://lwn.net/Articles/227144/
removing our embargo

Comment 9 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-03-22 10:40:39 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0033.html