Re: Flaw in OpenOffice.org 2.1: OpenOffice 2.1 is vulnerable to MS Word 0 day vulnerability!!!

[George Yobst <george () lincc lib or us>]

Confirmed.  Crashes a fresh 2.1 on W2K (fully patched).  The error
is 'Main Memory Shortage...' then it starts into document recovery.
-George

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Bruno Lustosa wrote:

| On 15 Dec 2006 09:49:54 -0000, gplit () gsplit com <gplit () gsplit com> wrote:
| > try yourself with OpenOffice.org 2.1:
| > http://www.milw0rm.com/sploits/12122006-djtest.doc
|
| Crashed OpenOffice.org 2.1 on my Linux system (Gentoo using
| openoffice-bin 2.1.0).
| Anyone tried it under Windows?
|
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| Bruno Lustosa <bruno () lustosa net>
| http://www.lustosa.net/
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