Word handling bug shoots down StarOffice.

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Sun last week pushed out a set of updates designed to fix a flaw in its StarOffice and StarSuite office software packages.
Problems in handling Microsoft Word documents by Sun's open source alternatives created a code injection risk. Users induced into opening malformed documents could wind up with pwned Windows PCs because of the bug, just the sort of thing hackers running targeting attacks might be interested in exploiting.
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