OpenOffice Multiple Vulnerabilties and Security Issue

Secunia ID	SA32419
CVE-ID	CVE-2008-2237, CVE-2008-2238, CVE-2008-4937
Release Date	29 Oct 2008
Last Change	11 Nov 2008
Criticality	Highly Critical Typically used for remotely exploitable vulnerabilities that can lead to system compromise. Successful exploitation does not normally require any interaction but there are no known exploits available at the time of disclosure. Such vulnerabilities can exist in services like FTP, HTTP, and SMTP or in client systems like email programs or browsers.
Solution Status	Vendor Patch
Software	OpenOffice.org 2.x
Where	From remote "From remote" describes other vulnerabilities where the attack vector doesn't require access to the system or a local network. This category covers services that are acceptable to expose to the Internet (e.g. HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP). It also covers client applications used on the Internet and certain vulnerabilities where it is reasonable to assume that a security conscious user can be tricked into performing certain actions.
Impact	System access This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user. Privilege escalation This covers vulnerabilities where a user is able to conduct certain tasks with the privileges of other users or administrative users. This typically includes cases where a local user on a client or server system can gain access to the administrator or root account thus taking full control of the system.
Description	Some vulnerabilities and a security issue have been reported in OpenOffice, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system, and by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges. 1) An error in the processing of WMF files can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted StarOffice/StarSuite document. 2) Multiple integer overflows when parsing certain EMR records of EMF files can be exploited to cause heap-based buffer overflows via a specially crafted StarOffice/StarSuite document. Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of arbitrary code. 3) The "senddoc" script uses temporary files in an insecure manner. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the affected script. NOTE: The security issue only affects Unix versions of OpenOffice. The vulnerabilities are reported in 2.x versions prior to 2.4.2.
Solution	Update to version 2.4.2.
Reported by	1) The vendor credits an anonymous researcher working with the SureRun Security Team 2) Sebastian Apelt and Code Audit Labs, reported via iDefense Labs 3) Reported by Dmitry E. Oboukhov in a Debian bug report.
Original Advisory	OpenOffice.org: http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2008-2237.html http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2008-2238.html iDefense Labs: http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=750 Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496361