According to upstream this issue was fixed in LibreOffice 3.5.5.

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Title:
  Vulnerable to the billion laughs attack

Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  If one alters one of the various xml file formats that libreoffice supports(I 
tested against .docx and .odt - I assume the other formats are also vulnerable) 
and inserts the [0] billion laughs 'stock' xml attack into the document when 
libreoffice attempts to open the file then it will expand the entities (using 
100% cpu and continuing to use more and more memory).
  I will attach an example .odt file where the content.xml inside the zip 
container has been modified to this issue.

  
  [0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs

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