On 4/13/05, Jason Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Shouldn't a severe vulnerability notification have been sent to the
> announce list? I mean, this is pretty serious.

Maybe now, but you want to keep it quiet until a patch becomes
available.  This isn't really a severe vulnerability, because it
requires user interaction for it to be ran.  I.E. I would have to
download a specialized Word document that is exploiting the hole.

Now is probably the best time to tell people so they can look forward
to a patch.

Adam M.

> 
> On 4/13/05, Deepankar Datta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > OpenOffice Confirms Buffer Overflow Flaw
> > ----------------------------------------
> > "The OpenOffice.org community on Tuesday confirmed the existence of a
> > potentially serious heap-overflow vulnerability in its freely
> > distributed office productivity suite."
> > ...
> > "We learned of this March 31 and will be working on it immediately. A
> > patch is ready but it is still going through [quality assurance]
> > testing," Suarez-Potts told eWEEK.com. The update is expected to be
> > available for general download within two days."
> >
> > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1785154,00.asp
> >
> > OpenOffice.org post:
> > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=46388
> >
> > Further reporting:
> > http://news.com.com/OpenOffice.org+details+vulnerability/2100-1002_3-5669073.html?tag=nefd.top
> >
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