Vulnerability Spotlight: Apache Open Office Vulnerabilities
Summary: Cisco Talos discovered vulnerabilities in Apache OpenOffice, a free open source office suite, with technical details published in a Talos Vulnerability Report and an OpenOffice advisory. Talos notes that attackers commonly exploit word processor flaws through malicious email attachments that execute commands when a victim is socially engineered into opening the file, and it cites a recent campaign against South Korean users that used a Hangul Word Processor vulnerability as an example of this vector.
What's compelling: Talos says it has monitored many campaigns using this attack vector for targeted attacks, and the South Korean case shows a document exploit was enough to infect victims - a reminder that patching the operating system alone leaves the office suite exposed.
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