CVE-2008-3437 Information

Description

OpenOffice.org (OOo) before 2.1.0 does not properly verify the authenticity of updates which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse update as demonstrated by evilgrade and DNS cache poisoning.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-07/0250.html http://securitytracker.com/id?1020583 http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/Francisco20Amato20-20evilgrade20-20ENG.pdf http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/isr-evilgrade-1.0.0.tar.gz