LibreOffice vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows

h-online: Three weeks after releasing LibreOffice 3.5.5, The Document Foundation has confirmed that security holes in earlier versions of the open source LibreOffice productivity suite can be exploited by attackers to compromise a victim’s system. According to the project’s security advisory, these include multiple heap-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the XML manifest encryption tag parsing code. ...

August 2, 2012 Â· 1 min Â· 156 words Â· Omid Farhang