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images/news/security.jpgA 'highly critical' flaw has been discovered in the OpenOffice suite of products that could allow hackers to access a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused by integer overflows when processing certain tags within Tiff images.
This problem could be exploited to cause heap-based buffer overflows, possibly by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted document.
Successful exploitation could allow the execution of arbitrary code and compromise a user's system, according to Secunia, which rated the vulnerability as 'highly critical'.
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The vulnerability is caused by integer overflows when processing certain tags within Tiff images.
This problem could be exploited to cause heap-based buffer overflows, possibly by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted document.
Successful exploitation could allow the execution of arbitrary code and compromise a user's system, according to Secunia, which rated the vulnerability as 'highly critical'.
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