MENLO PARK, Calif. February 7, 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW), the largest code contributor to free and open source communities, today announced the upcoming availability of the StarOffice 8 Conversion Technology Preview plug-in application for Microsoft Office 2003. The early access version of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) plug-in, available as a free download, will allow seamless two-way conversion of Microsoft Office documents to ODF. "Organizations can now consider switching to ISO/IEC 26300 OpenDocument Format while protecting employees needing assistive devices only supported by legacy Microsoft software," said Rich Green, executive vice president, Software at Sun Microsystems. "ODF is important because it ensures documents will still be readable long into the future while allowing a wide choice of proprietary and open source software choices to work with the documents." The StarOffice 8 Conversion Technology Preview is primarily based on the OpenOffice.org platform, the open-source office productivity suite developed by the OpenOffice.org community including the founder and main contributor Sun Microsystems. Sun offers distributions and configurations of and support for OpenOffice.org under the StarOffice brand. The initial plug-in application will support the conversion of text documents (.doc/.odt) only, but full support of spreadsheet and presentation documents is expected in April. The conversion is absolutely transparent to the user and the additional memory footprint is minimal. The Executive Department of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is currently using the converter to meet the previously identified January, 2007 compliance date for the start of a phased migration to the ODF format. In addition to allowing the Commonwealth's existing Microsoft Office applications to read and write ODF text files, the converter permits the continued use of the state's chosen accessibility technologies to meet the needs of people with disabilities. "A
Advisory from iDefense Labs: http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilit...id=472 RARLabs Unrar Password Prompt Buffer Overflow Vulnerability I. BACKGROUND Unrar is a command line archive extractor for Windows and Linux. For more information visit the vendor's site at the URL shown below. http://www.rarlabs.com/ II. DESCRIPTION Remote exploitation of a stack based buffer overflow vulnerability in RARLabs Unrar may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user opening the archive. Unrar is prone to a stack based buffer overflow when processing specially crafted password protected archives. III. ANALYSIS Exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user opening the file. Exploitation would require that an attacker hosts a maliciously crafted document on a website and entice users to visit the site. An attacker could also e-mail the malicious document and use social engineering techniques to trick the e-mail recipient into opening the document. There are several mitigating factors for this vulnerability. Nearly all Windows users will use the GUI based WinRAR to open archives, and it is not vulnerable. If users are using the vulnerable command line based unrar, they still need to interact with the program in order to trigger the vulnerability. They must respond to the prompt asking for the password, after which the vulnerability will be triggered. They do not need to enter a correct password, but they must at least push the enter key. IV. DETECTION iDefense has confirmed the existence of this vulnerability in version 3.60 for Linux and 3.61 for Windows. Previous versions may also be affected. V. WORKAROUND iDefense is currently unaware of any workarounds for this issue. VI. VENDOR RESPONSE RARLabs has addressed this vulnerability with the version 3.70 beta release of WinRAR. VII. CVE INFORMATION A Mitre Corp. Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE
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