A XML External Entity (XXE) flaw was found in the way raptor, an Resource Description Framework (RDF) parser toolkit, processed certain RDF/XML format based input files. If an attacker provided a specially-crafted RDF file, and tricked the local user into parsing it, it could lead to local file inclusion, or, potentially arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user parsing the file (privileges of the "rapper" executable or privileges of an application, linked against the librdf library). Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Timothy D. Morgan of VSR for reporting this issue.
This issue affects the version of the openoffice.org package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. -- This issue affects the version of the raptor package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. -- This issue affects the versions of the raptor package, as shipped with Fedora EPEL 5. -- This issue affects the versions of the raptor package, as shipped with Fedora release of 15 and 16. -- This issue affects the version of the raptor2 package, as shipped with Fedora release of 16.
Preliminary embargo date for public disclosure of this issue has been set up to Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 12:00 UTC time.
Public now via: http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2012-0037.html http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2012/03/22/tdf-announces-libreoffice-3-4-6/ http://www.libreoffice.org/advisories/CVE-2012-0037/
Created raptor tracking bugs for this issue Affects: epel-5 [bug 805938]
Created raptor tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 805941]
Created raptor2 tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-16 [bug 805944]
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2012:0410 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0410.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2012:0411 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0411.html
External References: http://vsecurity.com/resources/advisory/20120324-1/ http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2012-0037.html http://www.libreoffice.org/advisories/CVE-2012-0037/