Bug 988834 (CVE-2013-2189)

Summary: CVE-2013-2189 openoffice.org, libreoffice: Memory corruption when parsing invalid PLCF data by processing certain DOC files
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: caolanm, dtardon, erack, jkurik, ltinkl, mstahl, sbergman
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: Apache OpenOffice 4.0, LibreOffice 3.6.7, LibreOffice 4.0.4, LibreOffice 4.1.0 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-07-26 13:58:58 UTC 
A security flaw was found in the way Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice, office productivity suites, previously used to handle certain, invalid PLCF (Plex of Character Positions in File) elements when parsing selected Microsoft Office Word (DOC) format documents. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted DOC format file that, when processed in some application from the Apache OpenOffice or LibreOffice suites would lead to that application crash or, potentially, arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running the application.

References:
[1] http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2013-2189.html
[2] http://www.libreoffice.org/advisories/CVE-2013-2189/
Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-07-31 05:02:41 UTC 
Upstream commits:

Apache OpenOffice:

http://svn.apache.org/r1491721
http://svn.apache.org/r1491725
http://svn.apache.org/r1496364
http://svn.apache.org/r1499266
Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-08-02 05:38:01 UTC 
This issue affects the version of the openoffice.org package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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This issue did not affect the version of the libreoffice package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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This issue did not affect the versions of the libreoffice package, as shipped with Fedora release of 18 and 19.
Comment 6 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-08-02 05:39:03 UTC 
Statement:

We do not consider a denial of service flaw in a client application such as OpenOffice to be a security issue.