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Debian 4.0 DSA 1419-1 Critical: OpenOffice.org Arbitrary Code Execution

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Calendar Grey December 5, 2007
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1419-1 addresses risks from OpenOffice.org vulnerabilities allowing Java code execution.
ulnerability has been discovered in HSQLDB, the default database engine shipped with OpenOffice.org

Summary


For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch4 of OpenOffice.org and in version
1.8.0.7-1etch1 of hsqldb.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.1-1 of OpenOffice.org and in version 1.8.0.9-2 of hsqldb.

For the experimental distribution this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.1~rc1-1 of OpenOffice.org and in version 1.8.0.9-1 of
hsqldb.

We recommend that you upgrade your OpenOffice.org and hsqldb packages.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------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 at the end of this advisory:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


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