Bug 251967 (CVE-2007-2834)

Summary: CVE-2007-2834 openoffice.org TIFF parsing heap overflow
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: caolanm, kreilly, osoukup
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Bug Depends On: 251971, 251972, 251973, 251974, 251975, 251979, 251981, 293361, 293371    
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Description Mark J. Cox 2007-08-13 18:06:48 UTC 
An anonymous researcher reported to iDefense  a heap overflow in TIFF parsing in
OpenOffice.org.  If a victim opens a carefully crafted document containing a
malicious TIFF file it could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Embargo set to 20070904
Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2007-08-13 18:06:49 UTC 
Created attachment 161195 [details]
proposed patch
Comment 9 Tomas Hoger 2007-09-17 14:29:14 UTC 
Vulnerability was publicly announced by OpenOffice.org project and fixed in
OpenOffice.org 2.3:

http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2007-2834.html

Removing embargo.
Comment 12 Red Hat Product Security 2008-01-14 16:58:39 UTC 
This issue was addressed in:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0848.html

Fedora:
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F7/FEDORA-2007-2372