Hellcode Research: OpenOffice File Parsing Null Pointer Vulnerability

Release Date:
2010-01-14

Product:
OpenOffice

Tested Vulnerable Versions:
3.1.1 and 3.1.0

Vulnerability:
Null Pointer

Description:
Hellcode Research discovered a null pointer vulnerability in Openoffice for Windows.

Opening a malformed ".csv" file with Openoffice, causes a crash on "soffice.bin"

PoC:
http://tcc.hellcode.net/sploitz/csv.rar

Credits:
Hellcode Research
The Computer Cheats (TCC)
Natal Networks

Urls:
tcc.hellcode.net
forum.hellcode.net
www.natalnetworks.com