Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
This updates provides a security update to the OpenOffice.org described as follow:
OpenOffice's xmlsec uses a bundled Libtool which might load .la file in the current working directory allowing local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file. For enabling such vulnerability xmlsec has to use --enable-crypto_dl building flag however it does not, although the fix keeps protected against this threat whenever that flag had been enabled (CVE-2009-3736).
Addittionaly this update provides following bug fixes:
OpenOffice.org is not properly configure to use the xdg-email functionality of the FreeDesktop standard (#52195).
Template desktop icons are not properly set up then they are not presented under the context menu of applications like Dolphin (#56439).
libia_ora-gnome is added as suggest as long as that package is needed for a better look (#57385#c28).
It is enabled a fallback logic to properly select an OpenOffice.org style whenever one is set up but that is not installed (#57530#c1, #53284, #45133, #39043)
It is enabled the Firefox plugin for viewing OpenOffice.org documents inside browser.
Affected
openoffice.org on Mandriva Linux 2010.0,
Mandriva Linux 2010.0/X86_64
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-3736 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.9
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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