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[Backports-security-announce] Security Update for openoffice.org



Rene Engelhard uploaded a new package for openoffice.org which fixed the
following security problems:

CVE-2010-0136

    It was discovered that macro security settings were insufficiently
    enforced for VBA macros.

CVE-2009-0217

    It was discovered that the W3C XML Signature recommendation
    contains a protocol-level vulnerability related to HMAC output
    truncation. This also affects the integrated libxmlsec library.

CVE-2009-2949

    Sebastian Apelt discovered that an integer overflow in the XPM
    import code may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2009-2950

    Sebastian Apelt and Frank Reissner discovered that a buffer
    overflow in the GIF import code may lead to the execution of
    arbitrary code.

CVE-2009-3301/CVE-2009-3302

    Nicolas Joly discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the parser for
    Word document files, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary
    code.

For the lenny-backports distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1:3.1.1-15+squeeze1~bpo50+1.

Upgrade instructions
---------------------

If you don't use pinning (see [1]) you have to update redmine
manually via "apt-get -t lenny-backports install redmine".
[1] <http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions>

We recommend to pin the backports repository to 200 so that new versions
of installed backports will be installed automatically:

Package: *
Pin: release a=lenny-backports
Pin-Priority: 200

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