Dangerous security error in OpenOffice

Security firm Secunia has announced a newly discovered bug in OpenOffice.org's office suite that could allow attackers to execute malicious code and compromise the system.

OpenOffice, the office suite is popular and tends to replace the popular office tool set, Microsoft Office. The OpenOffice toolkit provides a lot of functions and utilities like the Microsoft Office suite and above all it's free. Works with many operating systems such as Windows, Mac, Linux .

The error has been notified by OpenStec Secunia to OpenOffice about the buffer overflow in handling WMF / EMF files. The error can be exploited by deliberately deleting the user to open a 'replicated' WMF / EMF file. When exploiting the error successfully, the attacker can take full control of the system and execute arbitrary code.

OpenOffice has also confirmed this error and recommends that users are using versions of OpenOffice.org 1.0.x, 1.1.x, 2.x as well as for all operating systems, so patch the latest security at Here or upgrade to the new version 2.1.