A security vulnerability with the way OpenOffice.org processes Word
documents may allow a remote unprivileged user who provides a Word document
that is opened by a local user to execute arbitrary commands on the system
with the privileges of the user running OpenOffice.org.
No working exploit is known right now.
There are no predictable symptoms that would indicate this issue has occurred.
There is no workaround. See "Resolution" below.
This issue is addressed in the following releases:
OpenOffice.org acknowledges with thanks, Dyon Balding of Secunia Research.