A new security flaw, potentially allowing execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the OpenOffice.org suite tools has been reported by the InteVyDis security researchers team: [1] http://intevydis.com/oo_0day.html [2] http://twitter.com/#!/legerov/status/75482755194032128 Note: Since no further detailed information is currently available about this flaw, Red Hat Security Response Team is actively investigating the progress done on this (at upstream and reporter side) and will update this record with further information as soon as it is available. Mitigation: Do not OpenOffice.org documents from untrusted sources.
This has been assigned CVE-2011-2177 as per: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/5161
Statement: We do not currently plan to fix this issue due to the lack of further information about the flaw and its impact. If more information becomes available at a future date, we may revisit the issue.