[Translation] Re: CVE-2012-0037: OpenOffice.org data leakage vulnerability

[Paolo Pozzan <pa...@z2z.it>]

The italian community would like to translate the bullettin. It will 
really help us to have the originals ODT versions of the README.pdf 
files. Can someone provide them?
Thanks
Paolo Pozzan

Il 22/03/2012 14:16, Rob Weir ha scritto:
> Please note, this is the official security bulletin, targeted for
> security professionals.  If you are an OpenOffice.org 3.3 user, and
> are able to apply the mentioned patch, then you are encouraged to do
> so.  If someone else supports or manages your desktop, then please
> forward this information to them.
>
> Additional support is available on our Community Forums:
>
> http://user.services.openoffice.org/
>
> And via our ooo-users mailing list:
>
> http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html#users-mailing-list
>
> Note:  This security patch for OpenOffice.org is made available to
> legacy OpenOffice.org users as a service by the Apache OpenOffice
> Project Management Committee.  The patch is made available under the
> Apache License, and due to its importance, we are releasing it outside
> of the standard release cycle.
>
> -Rob
>
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> CVE-2012-0037: OpenOffice.org data leakage vulnerability
>
> Severity: Important
>
> Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
>
> Versions Affected: OpenOffice.org 3.3 and 3.4 Beta, on all platforms.
> Earlier versions may be also affected.
>
> Description: An XML External Entity (XXE) attack is possible in the
> above versions of OpenOffice.org.  This vulnerability exploits the way
> in
> which external entities are processed in certain XML components of ODF
> documents.  By crafting an external entity to refer to other local
> file system
> resources, an attacker would be able to inject contents of other
> locally- accessible files into the ODF document, without the user's
> knowledge or permission.  Data leakage then becomes possible when that
> document is later distributed to other parties.
>
> Mitigation: OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 and 3.4 beta users should install the
> patch at:  http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2012-0037.html
>
> This vulnerability is also fixed in Apache OpenOffice 3.4 dev
> snapshots since March 1st, 2012.
>
> Source and Building: Information on obtaining the source code for this
> patch, and for porting it or adapting it to OpenOffice.org derivatives
> can be found here: http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2012-0037-src.txt
>
> Credit: The Apache OpenOffice project acknowledges and thanks the
> discoverer of this issue, Timothy D. Morgan of Virtual Security
> Research, LLC.
>
> References: http://security.openoffice.org
>
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