Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-0259 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Openoffice Openoffice.Org
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE Integrity impact
COMPLETE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
The Word processor in OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 through 1.1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) .doc, (2) .wri, or (3) .rtf Word 97 file that triggers memory corruption, as exploited in the wild in December 2008, as demonstrated by 2008-crash.doc.rar, and a similar issue to CVE-2008-4841.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 4 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Exploit-Db
| description | MS Windows Wordpad .doc File Local Denial of Service PoC. CVE-2008-4841,CVE-2009-0259. Dos exploit for windows platform |
| file | exploits/windows/dos/6560.txt |
| id | EDB-ID:6560 |
| last seen | 2016-02-01 |
| modified | 2008-09-25 |
| platform | windows |
| port | |
| published | 2008-09-25 |
| reporter | securfrog |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/6560/ |
| title | Microsoft Windows Wordpad - .doc File Local Denial of Service PoC |
| type | dos |
Statements
| contributor | Tomas Hoger |
| lastmodified | 2009-01-23 |
| organization | Red Hat |
| statement | This issue can only result in an OpenOffice.org crash, not allowing arbitrary code execution. Red Hat does not consider a crash of a client application such as OpenOffice.org to be a security issue. |