Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenOffice.org office
suite. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:
- CVE-2010-0136
It was discovered that macro security settings were insufficiently
enforced for VBA macros.
- CVE-2009-0217
It was discovered that the W3C XML Signature recommendation
contains a protocol-level vulnerability related to HMAC output
truncation. This also affects the integrated libxmlsec library.
- CVE-2009-2949
Sebastian Apelt discovered that an integer overflow in the XPM
import code may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2009-2950
Sebastian Apelt and Frank Reissner discovered that a buffer
overflow in the GIF import code may lead to the execution of
arbitrary code.
- CVE-2009-3301/CVE-2009-3302
Nicolas Joly discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the parser for
Word document files, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary
code.
For the old stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch9.
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny6.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your openoffice.org packages.