Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenOffice.org, a free
office suite. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project
identifies the following problems:
It turned out to be possible to embed arbitrary BASIC macros in
documents in a way that OpenOffice.org does not see them but
executes them anyway without any user interaction.
Loading malformed XML documents can cause buffer overflows and
cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.
This update has the Mozilla component disabled, so that the
Mozilla/LDAP adressbook feature won't work anymore. It didn't work on
anything else than i386 on sarge either.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain OpenOffice.org
packages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.3-9sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.3-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your OpenOffice.org packages.
Upgrade Instructions
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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.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
