A security vulnerability with the way OpenOffice.org 2 processes ODF text documents with XForms, using the 3rd party library ICU, may allow a remote unprivileged user who provides a OpenOffice.org 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.
All versions prior to OpenOffice.org 2.4
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 release:
OpenOffice.org 2.4