A new security update has been released for Gentoo Linux - OpenOffice.org: Two buffer overflows. Here the announcement:

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200707-02
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: Normal
Title: OpenOffice.org: Two buffer overflows
Date: July 02, 2007
Bugs: #181773
ID: 200707-02

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenOffice.org,
allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background
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OpenOffice.org is an open source office productivity suite, including
word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, data charting,
formula editing, and file conversion facilities.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-office/openoffice < 2.2.1 >= 2.2.1
2 app-office/openoffice-bin < 2.2.1 >= 2.2.1
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2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures.
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Description
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John Heasman of NGSSoftware has discovered a heap-based buffer overflow
when parsing the "prdata" tag in RTF files where the first token is
smaller than the second one (CVE-2007-0245). Additionally, the
OpenOffice binary program is shipped with a version of FreeType that
contains an integer signedness error in the n_points variable in file
truetype/ttgload.c, which was covered by GLSA 200705-22
(CVE-2007-2754).

Impact
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A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted
document, possibly leading to execution of arbitrary code with the
rights of the user running OpenOffice.org.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All OpenOffice.org users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/openoffice-2.2.1"

All OpenOffice.org binary users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/openoffice-bin-2.2.1"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2007-0245
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0245
[ 2 ] CVE-2007-2754
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2754
[ 3 ] GLSA 200705-22
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200705-22.xml

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200707-02.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2007 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5