OpenOffice.org could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted document and examined the included macros.
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.
8 June 2010
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
OpenOffice.org could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted document and examined the included macros.
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.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart OpenOffice.org to make all the necessary changes.
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