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CVE-2007-2834

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 12.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-09-18 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in the TIFF parser in OpenOffice.org (OOo) before 2.3; and Sun StarOffice 6, 7, and 8 Office Suite (StarSuite); allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a TIFF file with crafted values of unspecified length fields, which triggers allocation of an incorrect amount of memory, resulting in a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation Apache OpenOffice: before 2.3.0 — fixed in 2.3.0
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 6.10, 7.04
• Debian Linux: 3.1, 4.0
• Sun Staroffice: 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
• Sun Starsuite: all versions

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apache Software Foundation Apache OpenOffice 2.3.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192818
• http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2007-237.shtml
• http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2007-700.shtml
• http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=593
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-09/msg00002.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26816
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26817
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26839
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26844
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26855
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26861
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26891

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