Multiple vulnerabilities is affected by three security vulnerabilities which can be exploited to allow the execution of arbitrary code by a remote attacker. 2006-07-28 2006-07-28 138545 remote 2.0.3 2.0.3 2.0.3 2.0.3 is an open source office productivity suite, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, data charting, formula editing, and file conversion facilities.

Internal security audits by have discovered three security vulnerabilities related to Java applets, macros and the XML file format parser.

An attacker might exploit these vulnerabilities to escape the Java sandbox, execute arbitrary code or BASIC code with the permissions of the user running

Disabling Java applets will protect against the vulnerability in the handling of Java applets. There are no workarounds for the macro and file format vulnerabilities.

All users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/openoffice-2.0.3" Security Bulletin 2006-06-29 CVE-2006-2199 CVE-2006-2198 CVE-2006-3117 dizzutch koon