USN-949-1: OpenOffice.org vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 10.04
• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 9.04
• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• openoffice.org - full-featured office productivity suite

Details

Marc Schoenefeld discovered that OpenOffice.org would run document macros
from the macro browser, even when macros were disabled. If a user were
tricked into opening a specially crafted document and examining a macro,
a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10

• openoffice.org-base-core - 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 9.04

• openoffice.org-base-core - 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3.3

Ubuntu 8.04

• openoffice.org-base-core - 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.4

Ubuntu 10.04

• openoffice.org-base-core - 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.1

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

References

• CVE-2010-0395