Dienstag April 12, 2005
"OpenOffice Confirms Buffer Overflow Flaw"
"This could potentially be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system by convincing a user to open a malicious document with an unpatched application. "We learned of this March 31 and will be working on it immediately. A patch is ready but it is still going through [quality assurance] testing," Suarez-Potts told eWEEK.com. The update is expected to be available for general download within two days."
The full article can be found here.
Regarding the status of the patch you might want to follow this message thread.
( Apr 12 2005, 11:58:41 PM CEST )
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