National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-4251

Overview

OpenOffice.org (OOo) 2.2 does not properly handle files with multiple extensions, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (08/14/2007)

Red Hat does not consider this flaw a security issue. This flaw will only crash OpenOffice.org if a victim opens a malicious document.

Official Statement from Mandriva (09/18/2007)

This issue crashes OpenOffice.org only if a user opens a malicious document. Mandriva does not consider this a security issue.

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External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070804 [ELEYTT] 4SIERPIEN2007

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/475534/100/0/threaded

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 46766

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/46766

External Source: XF

Name: openoffice-fileextension-dos(35806)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/35806

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018544

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018544

External Source: SREASON

Name: 3004

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3004