Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : openoffice.org vulnerability (USN-121-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 20510

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The StgCompObjStream::Load() failed to check the validity of a length field in documents. If an attacker tricked a user to open a specially crafted OpenOffice file, this triggered a buffer overflow which could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user opening the document.

The update for Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) also contains a translation update: The 'openoffice.org-l10n-xh' package now contains actual Xhosa translations (the previous version just shipped English strings).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 20510

File Name: ubuntu_USN-121-1.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-crashrep, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-gtk-gnome, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-kde, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-af, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-ar, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-ca, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-cs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-cy, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-da, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-de, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-el, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-en, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-es, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-et, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-eu, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-fi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-fr, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-gl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-he, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-hi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-hu, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-it, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-ja, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-kn, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-ko, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-lt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-nb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-nl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-nn, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-ns, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-pl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-pt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-pt-br, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-ru, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-sk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-sl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-sv, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-th, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-tr, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-xh, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-zh-cn, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-zh-tw, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-l10n-zu, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-mimelnk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ttf-opensymbol, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 5/6/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0941

USN: 121-1

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