It was discovered that OpenOffice.org, a full-featured office productivity
suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft(R) Office, is
not properly handling python macros embedded in an office document. This
allows an attacker to perform user-assisted execution of arbitrary code in
certain use cases of the python macro viewer component.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny7.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:3.2.1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your openoffice.org packages.
Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected p...
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