CVE-2010-3452

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-01-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in oowriter in OpenOffice.org (OOo) 2.x and 3.x before 3.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted tags in an RTF document.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache OpenOffice: from 2.0.0 before 3.3.0 — fixed in 3.3.0
Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 8.04, 9.10, 10.04, 10.10
Debian Linux: 5.0, 6.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apache Software Foundation Apache OpenOffice 3.3.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://osvdb.org/70713
http://secunia.com/advisories/40775
http://secunia.com/advisories/42999
http://secunia.com/advisories/43065
http://secunia.com/advisories/43105
http://secunia.com/advisories/43118
http://secunia.com/advisories/60799
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1056-1
http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/drosenbe/research.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2151
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201408-19.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:027

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