OpenOffice, LibreOffice: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenOffice and LibreOffice, the worst of which may result in execution of arbitrary code. openoffice 2014-08-31 2014-08-31 283370 305195 320491 332321 352864 386081 409509 429482 514886 remote 3.5.5.3 3.5.5.3 3.5.5.3 4.2.5.2 4.2.5.2 4.2.5.2 4.2.5.2

OpenOffice is the open source version of StarOffice, a full office productivity suite. LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenOffice and Libreoffice. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file using OpenOffice, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, a Denial of Service condition, execution of arbitrary Python code, authentication bypass, or reading and writing of arbitrary files.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All OpenOffice (binary) users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/openoffice-bin-3.5.5.3"

All LibreOffice users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/libreoffice-4.2.5.2"

All LibreOffice (binary) users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/libreoffice-bin-4.2.5.2"

We recommend that users unmerge OpenOffice:

# emerge --unmerge "app-office/openoffice"
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