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TITLE:
Gentoo update for openoffice and openoffice-bin

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31029

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31029/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for openoffice and openoffice-bin. This
fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to
compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA30599

SOLUTION:
openoffice users:
Update to "app-office/openoffice-2.4.1" or later.

openoffice-bin users:
Update to "app-office/openoffice-bin-2.4.1" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200807-05.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA30599:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30599/

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