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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.3

CVE-2006-5870 json

Multiple integer overflows in OpenOffice.org (OOo) 2.0.4 and earlier, and possibly other versions before 2.1.0; and StarOffice 6 through 8;…

published 2006-12-31 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-5854

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.5%
EPSS 8.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple integer overflows in OpenOffice.org (OOo) 2.0.4 and earlier, and possibly other versions before 2.1.0; and StarOffice 6 through 8; allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (a) WMF or (b) EMF file that triggers heap-based buffer overflows in (1) wmf/winwmf.cxx, during processing of META_ESCAPE records; and wmf/enhwmf.cxx, during processing of (2) EMR_POLYPOLYGON and (3) EMR_POLYPOLYGON16 records.

Patch / fix

  • openoffice.org RHEL 3 1.1.2-35.2.0.EL3
  • openoffice.org RHEL 4 1.1.5-6.6.0.EL4
  • openoffice.org-kde RHEL 4 1.1.5-6.6.0.EL4
  • openoffice.org-i18n RHEL 3 1.1.2-35.2.0.EL3
  • openoffice.org-i18n RHEL 4 1.1.5-6.6.0.EL4
  • openoffice.org-libs RHEL 3 1.1.2-35.2.0.EL3
  • openoffice.org-libs RHEL 4 1.1.5-6.6.0.EL4

red hat advisories RHSA-2007:0001

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2006-5870 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 openoffice.org 1.1.2-35.2.0.EL3, openoffice.org-i18n 1.1.2-35.2.0.EL3, openoffice.org-libs 1.1.2-35.2.0.EL3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 openoffice.org 1.1.2-35.2.0.EL3, openoffice.org-i18n 1.1.2-35.2.0.EL3, openoffice.org-libs 1.1.2-35.2.0.EL3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 openoffice.org 1.1.5-6.6.0.EL4, openoffice.org-kde 1.1.5-6.6.0.EL4, openoffice.org-i18n 1.1.5-6.6.0.EL4, openoffice.org-libs 1.1.5-6.6.0.EL4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 openoffice.org 1.1.5-6.6.0.EL4, openoffice.org-kde 1.1.5-6.6.0.EL4, openoffice.org-i18n 1.1.5-6.6.0.EL4, openoffice.org-libs 1.1.5-6.6.0.EL4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 openoffice.org 1.1.2-35.2.0.EL3, openoffice.org-i18n 1.1.2-35.2.0.EL3, openoffice.org-libs 1.1.2-35.2.0.EL3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 openoffice.org 1.1.5-6.6.0.EL4, openoffice.org-kde 1.1.5-6.6.0.EL4, openoffice.org-i18n 1.1.5-6.6.0.EL4, openoffice.org-libs 1.1.5-6.6.0.EL4
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 openoffice.org 1.1.2-35.2.0.EL3, openoffice.org-i18n 1.1.2-35.2.0.EL3, openoffice.org-libs 1.1.2-35.2.0.EL3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 openoffice.org 1.1.5-6.6.0.EL4, openoffice.org-kde 1.1.5-6.6.0.EL4, openoffice.org-i18n 1.1.5-6.6.0.EL4, openoffice.org-libs 1.1.5-6.6.0.EL4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:0001

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Exploit prediction

8.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.