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17 May 2007 Sun Alert 102807 Security Vulnerability in StarOffice/StarSuite URL Handler
posted by security in Alerts

Product: StarOffice 7 Office Suite, StarOffice 6.0 Office Suite, StarOffice 8 Office Suite

A security vulnerability with the way StarOffice/StarSuite 6, 7 and 8 process hyperlinks (URLs) in documents may allow a remote unprivileged user who provides a StarOffice/StarSuite document that is opened by a local user the ability to execute arbitrary commands on the system with the privileges of the user running StarOffice/StarSuite.

This issue is also described in the following document:

CVE-2007-0239 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0239

Avoidance: Patch

State: Resolved

First released: 26-Mar-2007

Sun Alert Link: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102807-1

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