On Saturday 19 Apr 2014 18:18:39 Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 19 Apr 2014 02:29:35 walt wrote:
> > Not long ago I started building my own libreoffice from their git repo
> > because I wanted to bisect a recent libreoffice bug in localc.
> > 
> > In the process of finding the bug I discovered that libreoffice ships its
> > own copy of openssl along with many other common opensource libraries.
> > 
> > The libreoffice team committed the heartbleed fix to their git repo a few
> > days ago, which got me thinking about why libreoffice needs ssl.
> > 
> > I'm thinking maybe for odbc, maybe webdav?  I dunno because all I really
> > use is localc and I don't know anything about the other stuff.
> > 
> > Are the users of libreoffice-stable at risk from heartbleed?  I don't
> > know enough to judge, but I worry about it.
> 
> I thought that they used NSS for digital signing of documents, but in any
> case it seems that LO is also impacted by the Heartbleed bug of openssl:
> 
>   http://secunia.com/community/advisories/57881

and here:  

  http://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2014-0160/

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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