Re: [libreoffice-users] Attempting to open any Microsoft XML document causes General I/O error after upgrade to 4.1
Hi Tanstaafl I followed your emails and this last one with your process. I can offer my input as to Windows 7. I am using Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, all up to date with jre-7u21, both 32bit and 64bit installed (this should not be an issue though as covered by many emails posts, LO is reducing it's need for Java support). I was testing LO 4.1 so I have LO 4.0.4.2 stable installed alongside LO 4.1.0.3 RC3, following the online guidelines on installing two LO versions without clashes. I did each step posted below and created the .docx document. I was able to open it with no incident whatsoever, so it might either point to a XP / LO problem under 32bit, or something you have installed in XP causing the crash. Hope this helps to iron out some of your issue. Regards Andrew Brown On 28/07/2013 07:52 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-07-26 4:57 PM, Girvin R. Herr girvin.h...@sbcglobal.net wrote: FWIW: I do not know the correlation of versions between LO and AOO, but today I got the following two security reports from the AOO users forum: Not sure if this was even remotely close to my reported problem. 1. Upgrade to 4.1 (Windows 32bit XP Pro sp3 fully up to date) 2. Open Writer, create a new text document with the word 'test' in the body. 3. Save as .odt file. 4. Open file (opens fine). 5. Save As .docx file. 6. Attempt to open the file - encounter General I/O error. Haven't tested on Windows 7 yet, but will in a bit... -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Attempting to open any Microsoft XML document causes General I/O error after upgrade to 4.1
On 2013-07-29 2:36 AM, Andrew Brown andre...@icon.co.za wrote: I can offer my input as to Windows 7. I am using Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, all up to date with jre-7u21, both 32bit and 64bit installed (this should not be an issue though as covered by many emails posts, LO is reducing it's need for Java support). I was testing LO 4.1 so I have LO 4.0.4.2 stable installed alongside LO 4.1.0.3 RC3, following the online guidelines on installing two LO versions without clashes. I did each step posted below and created the .docx document. I was able to open it with no incident whatsoever, so it might either point to a XP / LO problem under 32bit, or something you have installed in XP causing the crash. Confirmed... I'll test on a few more XP workstations, and go open a bug if it does the same thing on all of them. Would appreciate anyone else still on XP to test as well... Thanks Andrew -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Attempting to open any Microsoft XML document causes General I/O error after upgrade to 4.1
On 2013-07-29 8:00 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-07-29 2:36 AM, Andrew Brown andre...@icon.co.za wrote: I can offer my input as to Windows 7. I am using Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, all up to date with jre-7u21, both 32bit and 64bit installed (this should not be an issue though as covered by many emails posts, LO is reducing it's need for Java support). I was testing LO 4.1 so I have LO 4.0.4.2 stable installed alongside LO 4.1.0.3 RC3, following the online guidelines on installing two LO versions without clashes. I did each step posted below and created the .docx document. I was able to open it with no incident whatsoever, so it might either point to a XP / LO problem under 32bit, or something you have installed in XP causing the crash. Confirmed... I'll test on a few more XP workstations, and go open a bug if it does the same thing on all of them. The second one I tried it on (the first after mine, that was broken) it worked fine, so apparently it is something borked on my workstation... Sorry for the noise... -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Attempting to open any Microsoft XML document causes General I/O error after upgrade to 4.1
So, since I'm on the 4.1 release version, this isn't the cause of my problems? Is no one else having this problem? I'm on (32bit) XP Pro sp3 up to date, with JRE 7u25... On 2013-07-26 6:09 PM, Thorsten Behrens t...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Girvin R. Herr wrote: --- CVE-2013-2189 and --- CVE-2013-4156 Both are fixed in all current LibreOffice versions. Up-to-date information about security fixes / advisories is always available from: http://www.libreoffice.org/advisories/ Cheers, -- Thorsten -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Attempting to open any Microsoft XML document causes General I/O error after upgrade to 4.1
On 2013-07-26 4:57 PM, Girvin R. Herr girvin.h...@sbcglobal.net wrote: FWIW: I do not know the correlation of versions between LO and AOO, but today I got the following two security reports from the AOO users forum: Not sure if this was even remotely close to my reported problem. 1. Upgrade to 4.1 (Windows 32bit XP Pro sp3 fully up to date) 2. Open Writer, create a new text document with the word 'test' in the body. 3. Save as .odt file. 4. Open file (opens fine). 5. Save As .docx file. 6. Attempt to open the file - encounter General I/O error. Haven't tested on Windows 7 yet, but will in a bit... -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Attempting to open any Microsoft XML document causes General I/O error after upgrade to 4.1
Just wanted to check here before I go open a bug... I just upgraded to 4.1, everything seemed fine, but I encountered a .docx document this morning, and got the dreaded 'General I/O' error. I then tried a bunch of different XML documents (.docx, .xslx, and .pptx), and every one resulted in the same error. These are all docs that opened fine in 4.0.4 Will go back to 4.0.4 and confirm it resolves the problem... -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Attempting to open any Microsoft XML document causes General I/O error after upgrade to 4.1
Hi :) I sometimes get that from files on the network but when i copy them to local desktop machine they work fine. I've not really been tracking which versions it happens with. There seems to be something about the memory settings as higher spec machines with memory settings radically bumped right up seem to suffer this a lot less. They still get it occasionally tho. I thought it was my inexperience with networking or something Regard from Tom :) From: Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 26 July 2013, 11:33 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Attempting to open any Microsoft XML document causes General I/O error after upgrade to 4.1 Just wanted to check here before I go open a bug... I just upgraded to 4.1, everything seemed fine, but I encountered a .docx document this morning, and got the dreaded 'General I/O' error. I then tried a bunch of different XML documents (.docx, .xslx, and .pptx), and every one resulted in the same error. These are all docs that opened fine in 4.0.4 Will go back to 4.0.4 and confirm it resolves the problem... -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Attempting to open any Microsoft XML document causes General I/O error after upgrade to 4.1
FWIW: I do not know the correlation of versions between LO and AOO, but today I got the following two security reports from the AOO users forum: --- CVE-2013-2189 OpenOffice DOC Memory Corruption Vulnerability Severity: Important Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation Versions Affected: Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 to 3.4.1 on all platforms. Predecessor versions of OpenOffice.org may be also affected. Description: The vulnerability is caused by operating on invalid PLCF (Plex of Character Positions in File) data when parsing a malformed DOC document file. Specially crafted documents can be used for denial-of-service attacks. Further exploits are possible but have not been verified. Mitigation: Apache OpenOffice 3.4 users are advised to upgrade to Apache OpenOffice 4.0. Users who are unable to upgrade immediately should be cautious when opening untrusted documents. Credits: The Apache OpenOffice Security Team credits Jeremy Brown of Microsoft Vulnerability Research as the discoverer of this flaw. Herbert Dürr Member of the Apache OpenOffice Security Team --- CVE-2013-4156 OpenOffice DOCM Memory Corruption Vulnerability Severity: Important Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation Versions Affected: Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 and 3.4.1, on all platforms. Predecessor versions of OpenOffice.org may be also affected. Description: The vulnerability is caused by mishandling of unknown XML elements when parsing a OOXML document file. Specially crafted documents can be used for memory-corruption attacks. Further exploits are possible but have not been verified. Mitigation Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 and 3.4.1 users are advised to upgrade to Apache OpenOffice 4.0. Users who are unable to upgrade immediately should be cautious when opening untrusted documents. Credits The Apache OpenOffice Security Team credits Jeremy Brown of Microsoft Vulnerability Research as the discoverer of this flaw. Herbert Dürr Member of the Apache OpenOffice Security Team -- Could this be related, in that now LO 4.1 rejects such files where LO 4.0 did not? Just a messenger. Girvin Herr Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I sometimes get that from files on the network but when i copy them to local desktop machine they work fine. I've not really been tracking which versions it happens with. There seems to be something about the memory settings as higher spec machines with memory settings radically bumped right up seem to suffer this a lot less. They still get it occasionally tho. I thought it was my inexperience with networking or something Regard from Tom :) From: Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 26 July 2013, 11:33 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Attempting to open any Microsoft XML document causes General I/O error after upgrade to 4.1 Just wanted to check here before I go open a bug... I just upgraded to 4.1, everything seemed fine, but I encountered a .docx document this morning, and got the dreaded 'General I/O' error. I then tried a bunch of different XML documents (.docx, .xslx, and .pptx), and every one resulted in the same error. These are all docs that opened fine in 4.0.4 Will go back to 4.0.4 and confirm it resolves the problem... -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Attempting to open any Microsoft XML document causes General I/O error after upgrade to 4.1
Hi :) I am not 100% sure but LO has quietly dealt with a couple of potential threats of that nature quite a long time ago. The 3.4.0 and i think another in that same line were both quietly being pushed due to some known issue in the 3.3.x line. Most of us just ignored it and carried on using the supposedly problematic versions and had no problems though. Also i know that some of the code and patches have been quietly shared between the projects even when Oracle were being all stuffy about it so i really don't know if they are fixing something that LO already fixed ages ago or if this is something new. The 2 projects are very divergent now. Only around 12% of the code hasn't been touched at all. Although, as Umas said some of the changes may have been just removal or rewrites of commented-out lines. Regards from Tom :) From: Girvin R. Herr girvin.h...@sbcglobal.net To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Cc: Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org; users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 26 July 2013, 21:57 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Attempting to open any Microsoft XML document causes General I/O error after upgrade to 4.1 FWIW: I do not know the correlation of versions between LO and AOO, but today I got the following two security reports from the AOO users forum: --- CVE-2013-2189 OpenOffice DOC Memory Corruption Vulnerability Severity: Important Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation Versions Affected: Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 to 3.4.1 on all platforms. Predecessor versions of OpenOffice.org may be also affected. Description: The vulnerability is caused by operating on invalid PLCF (Plex of Character Positions in File) data when parsing a malformed DOC document file. Specially crafted documents can be used for denial-of-service attacks. Further exploits are possible but have not been verified. Mitigation: Apache OpenOffice 3.4 users are advised to upgrade to Apache OpenOffice 4.0. Users who are unable to upgrade immediately should be cautious when opening untrusted documents. Credits: The Apache OpenOffice Security Team credits Jeremy Brown of Microsoft Vulnerability Research as the discoverer of this flaw. Herbert Dürr Member of the Apache OpenOffice Security Team --- CVE-2013-4156 OpenOffice DOCM Memory Corruption Vulnerability Severity: Important Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation Versions Affected: Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 and 3.4.1, on all platforms. Predecessor versions of OpenOffice.org may be also affected. Description: The vulnerability is caused by mishandling of unknown XML elements when parsing a OOXML document file. Specially crafted documents can be used for memory-corruption attacks. Further exploits are possible but have not been verified. Mitigation Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 and 3.4.1 users are advised to upgrade to Apache OpenOffice 4.0. Users who are unable to upgrade immediately should be cautious when opening untrusted documents. Credits The Apache OpenOffice Security Team credits Jeremy Brown of Microsoft Vulnerability Research as the discoverer of this flaw. Herbert Dürr Member of the Apache OpenOffice Security Team -- Could this be related, in that now LO 4.1 rejects such files where LO 4.0 did not? Just a messenger. Girvin Herr Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I sometimes get that from files on the network but when i copy them to local desktop machine they work fine. I've not really been tracking which versions it happens with. There seems to be something about the memory settings as higher spec machines with memory settings radically bumped right up seem to suffer this a lot less. They still get it occasionally tho. I thought it was my inexperience with networking or something Regard from Tom :) From: Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 26 July 2013, 11:33 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Attempting to open any Microsoft XML document causes General I/O error after upgrade to 4.1 Just wanted to check here before I go open a bug... I just upgraded to 4.1, everything seemed fine, but I encountered a .docx document this morning, and got the dreaded 'General I/O' error. I then tried a bunch of different XML documents (.docx, .xslx, and .pptx), and every one resulted in the same error. These are all docs that opened fine in 4.0.4 Will go back to 4.0.4 and confirm it resolves the problem... -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http
Re: [libreoffice-users] Attempting to open any Microsoft XML document causes General I/O error after upgrade to 4.1
Hi, Girvin R. Herr wrote (26-07-13 22:57) FWIW: I do not know the correlation of versions between LO and AOO, but today I got the following two security reports from the AOO users forum: FYI: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/msg09642.html Cheers, Cor -- - Cor Nouws - http://nl.libreoffice.org - The Document Foundation Membership Committee Member -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Attempting to open any Microsoft XML document causes General I/O error after upgrade to 4.1
Girvin R. Herr wrote: --- CVE-2013-2189 and --- CVE-2013-4156 Both are fixed in all current LibreOffice versions. Up-to-date information about security fixes / advisories is always available from: http://www.libreoffice.org/advisories/ Cheers, -- Thorsten -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
