__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN libwpd Security Update [Red Hat RHSA-2007:0055-5] March 22, 2007 15:00 GMT Number R-184 [REVISED 19 Apr 2007] ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: There are several overflow bugs in libwpd. PLATFORM: RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge) StarOffice 8 Office Suite DAMAGE: An application linked with libwpd, such as OpenOffice, to crash or ppossibly execute arbitrary code. SOLUTION: Upgrade to the appropriate version. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. An attacker could create a carefully ASSESSMENT: crafted Word Perfect file that could cause an application linked with libwpd, such as OpenOffice, to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code if the file was opened by a victim. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/r-184.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0055.html ADDITIONAL LINKS: Debian Security Advisory DSA-1268-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1268 Sun Alert ID: 102863 http://www.sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102863-1 CVE: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CVE-2007-0002 ______________________________________________________________________________ REVISION HISTORY: 04/19/2007 - revised R-184 to add a link to Sun Alert ID: 102863 for StarOffice 8 Office Suite. [***** Start Red Hat RHSA-2007:0055-5 *****] Important: libwpd security update Advisory: RHSA-2007:0055-5 Type: Security Advisory Severity: Important Issued on: 2007-03-16 Last updated on: 2007-03-16 Affected Products: RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) OVAL: com.redhat.rhsa-20070055.xml CVEs (cve.mitre.org): CVE-2007-0002 CVE-2007-1466 Details Updated libwpd packages to correct a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. libwpd is a library for reading and converting Word Perfect documents. iDefense reported several overflow bugs in libwpd. An attacker could create a carefully crafted Word Perfect file that could cause an application linked with libwpd, such as OpenOffice, to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code if the file was opened by a victim. (CVE-2007-0002) All users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported fix for this issue. Red Hat would like to thank Fridrich Štrba for alerting us to these issues and providing a patch. Solution Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188 Updated packages RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IA-32: libwpd-devel-0.8.7-3.el5.i386.rpm 8cca81259f7c924e8390f842907bf7fd x86_64: libwpd-devel-0.8.7-3.el5.i386.rpm 8cca81259f7c924e8390f842907bf7fd libwpd-devel-0.8.7-3.el5.x86_64.rpm b86747cfa48cc2bd000baea86976a279 RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SRPMS: libwpd-0.8.7-3.el5.src.rpm c212cfc2bfabec2887bca4cbcf34acdc IA-32: libwpd-0.8.7-3.el5.i386.rpm d7de3bf36ddb16a350408bc72114a687 libwpd-devel-0.8.7-3.el5.i386.rpm 8cca81259f7c924e8390f842907bf7fd libwpd-tools-0.8.7-3.el5.i386.rpm 12cb995ab0f2ac9086ee7c80452eb10e x86_64: libwpd-0.8.7-3.el5.i386.rpm d7de3bf36ddb16a350408bc72114a687 libwpd-0.8.7-3.el5.x86_64.rpm 20d519bcc68a56585fdaae42e02ceb20 libwpd-devel-0.8.7-3.el5.i386.rpm 8cca81259f7c924e8390f842907bf7fd libwpd-devel-0.8.7-3.el5.x86_64.rpm b86747cfa48cc2bd000baea86976a279 libwpd-tools-0.8.7-3.el5.x86_64.rpm d283ebc02dd5a7122bf9160c4dd3a8dd Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SRPMS: libwpd-0.8.7-3.el5.src.rpm c212cfc2bfabec2887bca4cbcf34acdc IA-32: libwpd-0.8.7-3.el5.i386.rpm d7de3bf36ddb16a350408bc72114a687 libwpd-tools-0.8.7-3.el5.i386.rpm 12cb995ab0f2ac9086ee7c80452eb10e x86_64: libwpd-0.8.7-3.el5.i386.rpm d7de3bf36ddb16a350408bc72114a687 libwpd-0.8.7-3.el5.x86_64.rpm 20d519bcc68a56585fdaae42e02ceb20 libwpd-tools-0.8.7-3.el5.x86_64.rpm d283ebc02dd5a7122bf9160c4dd3a8dd (The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network) Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information) 222808 - CVE-2007-0002 buffer overflows References http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0002 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1466 http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. 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