OPENOFFICE SECURITY

Source: www.f-secure.com
Topic: OpenOffice

Short Desciption:
... that the mime types assigned for the OpenOffice applications will be assigned to the appropriate applications. This way, any Linux mail client that has the mailcap(4)support will be able to open OpenOffce ...

 

Content Inside:
OPENOFFICE SECURITY   RAUTIAINEN 1 VIRUS BULLETIN CONFERENCE SEPTEMBER  2003 1 VIRUS BULLETIN CONFERENCE SEPTEMBER  2003 1 VIRUS BULLETIN CONFERENCE SEPTEMBER  2003 1 VIRUS BULLETIN CONFERENCE SEPTEMBER  2003 1 VIRUS BULLETIN CONFERENCE SEPTEMBER  2003 OPENOFFICE SECURITY OPENOFFICE SECURITY OPENOFFICE SECURITY OPENOFFICE SECURITY OPENOFFICE SECURITY Sami Rautiainen F-Secure Corporation, PL 24, FIN-00181 Helsinki, Finland Tel +358 9 2520 0700•Fax +358 9 2520 5014  Email Sami.Rautiainen@F-Secure.com ABSTRACT ABSTRACT ABSTRACT ABSTRACT ABSTRACT OpenOffice, the open office suite is available for Linux, Windows and Solaris, with the other platforms like MacOS X under development. It has reached the production version 1.0, being already the most popular office suite for Linux. This paper discusses the security model of OpenOffice - the environment and restrictions that are provided for executable content such as macros and embedded objects. The paper also examines the features of the native macro language and the XML file format used by OpenOffice. The OpenOffice feature set is similar to the feature set of Microsoft Office. It has word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications all tied together within a common look and feel. OpenOffice has a built-in macro language and a support for both JavaScript and Java applets. Looking at these features, the question arises: How secure is OpenOffice? Have OpenOffice developers taken into account the pitfalls shown by the history of the Microsoft Office or is OpenOffice the next victim of the abuse of macro viruses? 1 INTRODUCTION 1 INTRODUCTION 1 INTRODUCTION 1 INTRODUCTION 1 INTRODUCTION OpenOffice is a feature-rich Office application suite available for no cost with source code. At the time of writing of the paper, it is available for Windows , Linux , Sun Solaris and as a beta version for MacOS X. This paper ...

 

 

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