{"document":{"category":"csaf_vex","csaf_version":"2.0","distribution":{"text":"Copyright © Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.","tlp":{"label":"WHITE","url":"https://www.first.org/tlp/"}},"lang":"en","notes":[{"category":"legal_disclaimer","text":"This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.","title":"Terms of Use"}],"publisher":{"category":"vendor","contact_details":"https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/","issuing_authority":"Red Hat Product Security is responsible for vulnerability handling across all Red Hat products and services.","name":"Red Hat Product Security","namespace":"https://www.redhat.com"},"references":[{"category":"self","summary":"Canonical URL","url":"https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2009/cve-2009-0259.json"}],"title":"openoffice.org: text converter memory corruption via a crafted (1) .doc, (2) .wri, or (3) .rtf Word97 file","tracking":{"current_release_date":"2025-11-21T13:13:18+00:00","generator":{"date":"2025-11-21T13:13:18+00:00","engine":{"name":"Red Hat SDEngine","version":"4.6.12"}},"id":"CVE-2009-0259","initial_release_date":"2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00","revision_history":[{"date":"2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00","number":"1","summary":"Initial version"},{"date":"2025-04-09T00:45:04+00:00","number":"2","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-11-21T13:13:18+00:00","number":"3","summary":"Last generated version"}],"status":"final","version":"3"}},"product_tree":{"branches":[{"category":"vendor","name":"Red Hat","product":{"name":"All currently supported Red Hat products","product_id":"red_hat_products","product_identification_helper":{"cpe":"cpe:/a:redhat"}}}]},"vulnerabilities":[{"cve":"CVE-2009-0259","discovery_date":"2008-12-10T00:00:00+00:00","flags":[{"label":"vulnerable_code_not_present","product_ids":["red_hat_products"]}],"notes":[{"category":"description","text":"The Word processor in OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 through 1.1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) .doc, (2) .wri, or (3) .rtf Word 97 file that triggers memory corruption, as exploited in the wild in December 2008, as demonstrated by 2008-crash.doc.rar, and a similar issue to CVE-2008-4841.","title":"Vulnerability description"},{"category":"other","text":"This issue can only result in an OpenOffice.org crash, not allowing arbitrary code execution. Red Hat does not consider a crash of a client application such as OpenOffice.org to be a security issue.","title":"Statement"}],"product_status":{"known_not_affected":["red_hat_products"]},"references":[{"category":"self","summary":"Canonical URL","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-0259"},{"category":"external","summary":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0259","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0259"},{"category":"external","summary":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0259","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0259"}],"release_date":"2008-12-09T00:00:00+00:00","title":"openoffice.org: text converter memory corruption via a crafted (1) .doc, (2) .wri, or (3) .rtf Word97 file"}]}