RHN Errata Alert: Important: openoffice.org security update

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Security Advisory - RHSA-2009:1426-1
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Summary:
Important: openoffice.org security update

Updated openoffice.org packages that correct security issues are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red
Hat Security Response Team.

Description:
OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite that includes desktop
applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager,
formula editor, and a drawing program.

An integer underflow flaw and a boundary error flaw, both possibly leading
to a heap-based buffer overflow, were found in the way OpenOffice.org
parses certain records in Microsoft Word documents. An attacker could
create a specially-crafted Microsoft Word document, which once opened by an
unsuspecting user, could cause OpenOffice.org to crash or, potentially,
execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running
OpenOffice.org. (CVE-2009-0200, CVE-2009-0201)

All users of OpenOffice.org are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All
running instances of OpenOffice.org applications must be restarted for
this update to take effect.

References:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
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Taking Action
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Affected Systems List
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This Errata Advisory may apply to the systems listed below. If you know that
this errata does not apply to a system listed, it might be possible that the
package profile for that server is out of date. In that case you should refresh 
the system's package profile by running *one* of the following commands as root 
on that system:

 * 'up2date -p' (on Enterprise Linux systems prior to RHEL5)
 * 'rhn-profile-sync' (on Enterprise Linux 5 or later) 

There are 21 affected systems registered in 'Your RHN' (only systems for
which you have explicitly enabled Errata Alerts are shown).

Release   Arch       Profile Name
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4AS       i686       node1.mpifc                             
4AS       i686       node2.mpifc                             
4AS       i686       node3.mpifc                             
4AS       i686       node4.mpifc                             


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