CVE-2006-5870

CRITICAL 9.3CVE-2006-5870 · Published 31/12/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-5870 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability affecting openoffice (openoffice), staroffice (sun).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 8.5%, higher than 95.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
openoffice openoffice	`≤ 2.0.4`	No fix yet
staroffice sun	`= 6.0= 7.0= 8.0`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple integer overflows in OpenOffice.org (OOo) 2.0.4 and earlier, and possibly other versions before 2.1.0; and StarOffice 6 through 8; allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (a) WMF or (b) EMF file that triggers heap-based buffer overflows in (1) wmf/winwmf.cxx, during processing of META_ESCAPE records; and wmf/enhwmf.cxx, during processing of (2) EMR_POLYPOLYGON and (3) EMR_POLYPOLYGON16 records.

References

patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070101-01-P.asc
archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2007-q1/0002.htmly
fedoranews.org/cms/node/2344
lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0001.html
osvdb.org/32610
osvdb.org/32611
secunia.com/advisories/23549 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/23600 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/23612 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/23616 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/23620 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/23682 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/23683 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/23711 · Vendor Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

openoffice

≤ 2.0.4

No fix yet

staroffice

sun

= 6.0= 7.0= 8.0

No fix yet

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