USN-1537-1: OpenOffice.org vulnerability

13 August 2012

OpenOffice.org could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

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Details

It was discovered that OpenOffice.org incorrectly handled certain
encryption tags in Open Document Text (.odt) files. If a user were tricked
into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause
OpenOffice.org to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user invoking the program.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 10.04

After a standard system update you need to restart OpenOffice.org to make
all the necessary changes.

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