Package: openoffice.org-bin
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch
Justification: user security hole

>From http://secunia.com/advisories/23612/ :

A vulnerability has been reported in OpenOffice, which potentially
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to integer overflows within the
processor for WMF/EMF files. This can be exploited to cause a
heap-based buffer overflow by e.g. tricking a user into opening a
specially crafted WMF/EMF file.

Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code.

A patch is at
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=70042

Please mention the CVE id in the changelog.


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