Debian 4.0: DSA 1270-2 Critical: OpenOffice.org Remote Code Execution

iDefense reported several integer overflow bugs in libwpd, a
library for handling WordPerfect documents that is included in
OpenOffice.org. Attackers are able to exploit these with
carefully crafted WordPerfect files that could cause an
application linked with libwpd to crash or possibly execute
arbitrary code.

CVE-2007-0238

Next Generation Security discovered that the StarCalc parser in
OpenOffice.org contains an easily exploitable stack overflow that
could be used exploited by a specially crafted document to execute
arbitrary code.

CVE-2007-0239

It has been reported that OpenOffice.org does not escape shell
meta characters and is hence vulnerable to execute arbitrary shell
commands via a specially crafted document after the user clicked
to a prepared link.

This updated advisory only provides packages for the upcoming etch
release alias Debian GNU/Linux 4.0.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been ...