OpenOffice vulnerable to buffer overflow
A denial-of-service attack against the OpenOffice office suite (when it is running with remote access enabled) has been reported. In the report, the attacker connects to a port that OpenOffice opens when it is started with the command line
and sends to the port a series of characters. Reportedly, after receiving the series of characters, OpenOffice then crashes and opens its error report dialog window.
Users of OpenOffice who configure it for remote access should watch for an updated version of OpenOffice that provides protection from this type of attack, and should consider protecting the port opened by OpenOffice from attack using a tool such as a firewall.upgade here
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