Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Gentoo, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise an affected system. These issues are caused by errors in OpenOffice.org. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1253

Affected Products

app-office/openoffice versions prior to 2.4.0
app-office/openoffice-bin versions prior to 2.4.0

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=app-office/openoffice-2.4.0"
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=app-office/openoffice-bin-2.4.0"

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1545
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-16.xml

ChangeLog

2008-05-15 : Initial release

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