A short integer overflow, leading to heap-based buffer overflow was found in the way OpenOffice.org Impress presentation aplication processed polygons in input document. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially-crafted Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT) file that, when opened, would cause simpress.bin executable to crash, or, possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the ooimpress tool. References: [1] http://secunia.com/advisories/40775/ [2] http://securityevaluators.com/files/papers/CrashAnalysis.pdf [3] http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=27690 CVE Request: [4] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/11/1
Final upstream agreed patch for both issues is here: [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=622529#c6 (the generic/poly.cxx part of it applies to this bug report).
This issue affects the versions of the openoffice.org package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4. This issue affects the version of the openoffice.org-impress package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. -- This issue affects the versions of the openoffice.org-impress package, as shipped with Fedora release of 12 and 13. Though the impact of this flaw is mitigated there. For further details please proceed to: [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623609#c2
This issue has been assigned the name CVE-2010-2936.
Created openoffice.org tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 623609]
Statement: This issue is not planned to be fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, as its impact is mitigated by standard glibc protection mechanisms to cause only application abort. Red Hat Security Response Team does not consider a user-assisted crash (abort) of a client application, such as OpenOffice.org Impress tool, to be a security issue.
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Via RHSA-2010:0643 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0643.html