A 'highly critical' flaw has been discovered in the
OpenOffice suite of
products that could allow hackers to access a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused by integer overflows when processing certain tags
within Tiff images.
This problem could be exploited to cause heap-based buffer overflows,
possibly by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted document.
Successful exploitation could allow the execution of arbitrary code and
compromise a user's system, according to
Secunia, which
rated
the vulnerability as 'highly critical'.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions earlier than OpenOffice 2.3 and
the problem can be fixed by upgrading to the latest version of the software.
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