CVE-2006-5870: Openoffice

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 8.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Openoffice Openoffice: up to and including 2.0.4
• Sun Staroffice: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only

Published 2006-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.