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Debian DSA-2056-1 Critical Issue: LibreOffice Document Handling Flaw

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Calendar Grey June 5, 2010
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The Debian Security Advisory DSA-2055-1 addresses a vulnerability in OpenOffice.org, which allows the execution of arbitrary code through python macros.
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 m...

Summary

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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Package: openoffice.org
CVE ID: CVE-2010-0395

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