Hi Boiling John,
You could be a little more polite, keep in mind
that Rob provide this patch to protect or security.
The instructions are clear and I didn't had a
problem to install it.
Martin
On 25/03/2012 5:18 PM, John Boyle wrote:
On 3/22/2012 6:16 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
Please note, this is the official security
bulletin, targeted for
security professionals. If you are an
OpenOffice.org 3.3 user, and
are able to apply the mentioned patch, then you
are encouraged to do
so. If someone else supports or manages your
desktop, then please
forward this information to them.
Additional support is available on our
Community Forums:
http://user.services.openoffice.org/
And via our ooo-users mailing list:
http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html#users-mailing-list
Note: This security patch for OpenOffice.org
is made available to
legacy OpenOffice.org users as a service by the
Apache OpenOffice
Project Management Committee. The patch is
made available under the
Apache License, and due to its importance, we
are releasing it outside
of the standard release cycle.
-Rob
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CVE-2012-0037: OpenOffice.org data leakage
vulnerability
Severity: Important
Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected: OpenOffice.org 3.3 and 3.4
Beta, on all platforms.
Earlier versions may be also affected.
Description: An XML External Entity (XXE)
attack is possible in the
above versions of OpenOffice.org. This
vulnerability exploits the way
in
which external entities are processed in
certain XML components of ODF
documents. By crafting an external entity to
refer to other local
file system
resources, an attacker would be able to inject
contents of other
locally- accessible files into the ODF
document, without the user's
knowledge or permission. Data leakage then
becomes possible when that
document is later distributed to other parties.
Mitigation: OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 and 3.4 beta
users should install the
patch at:
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2012-0037.html
This vulnerability is also fixed in Apache
OpenOffice 3.4 dev
snapshots since March 1st, 2012.
Source and Building: Information on obtaining
the source code for this
patch, and for porting it or adapting it to
OpenOffice.org derivatives
can be found here:
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2012-0037-src.txt
Credit: The Apache OpenOffice project
acknowledges and thanks the
discoverer of this issue, Timothy D. Morgan of
Virtual Security
Research, LLC.
References: http://security.openoffice.org
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To Rob Weir: I have been a user of computers
since the TRS 80 from Tandy and a user of
OpenOffice for I don't know how many years! The
asinine patch that was put out to be installed
was badly done and I cannot use it whatsoever!
Now, if someone cannot get it to their heads
that a patch must be a simple install from the
get go, then they are going to lose users of
open office for their arrogance. A four-part
Idiotic message claiming to give you a patch is
actually totally worthless! Have you ever heard
of the DUMMIES books and method of approach to
this problem?:-( :-( :-(
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