| Description: | Updated openoffice.org packages that fix a security issue are now availablefor Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.This update has been rated as having important security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team.OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite that includes desktopapplications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager,formula editor, and a drawing program.A numeric truncation error was found in the OpenOffice.org memoryallocator. If a carefully crafted file was opened by a victim, an attackercould use this flaw to crash OpenOffice.org or, possibly, execute arbitrarycode. (CVE-2008-3282)All users of openoffice.org are advised to upgrade to these updatedpackages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. |