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Bug 228002

Summary: CVE-2007-0239 hyperlink escaping issue
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: openoffice.orgAssignee: Caolan McNamara <caolanm>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 5.0CC: security-response-team
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: impact=moderate,public=200601027,source=openoffice,public=20070320
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2007-0069 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-03-22 13:40:59 UTC Type: ---
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Description Mark J. Cox 2007-02-09 14:22:52 UTC
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 2 Caolan McNamara 2007-02-09 14:49:17 UTC
build underway, will be RHEL-5:openoffice_org-2.0.4-5.4.16.2

Comment 3 Caolan McNamara 2007-02-10 10:49:29 UTC
done as RHEL-5:openoffice_org-2.0.4-5.4.16.2

Comment 4 Caolan McNamara 2007-02-23 13:03:15 UTC
oops, need one off the .17, not the .16, 
RHEL-5:openoffice.org-2.0.4-5.4.17.1 build underway

Comment 6 Caolan McNamara 2007-02-25 14:48:08 UTC
RHEL-5:openoffice.org-2.0.4-5.4.17.1 available

Comment 13 Mark J. Cox 2007-03-22 08:06:36 UTC
well the embargo looks busted by http://lwn.net/Articles/227144/
removing our embargo

Comment 14 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-03-22 13:40:59 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-2007-0069.html