A vulnerability has been discovered in HSQLDB, the default database engine shipped with OpenOffice.org. This could result in the execution of arbitrary Java code embedded in a OpenOffice.org database document with the user's privilege. This update requires an update of both openoffice.org and hsqldb.
The old stable distribution (sarge) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch4 of OpenOffice.org and in version 1.8.0.7-1etch1 of hsqldb.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.1-1 of OpenOffice.org and in version 1.8.0.9-2 of hsqldb.
For the experimental distribution this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.1~rc1-1 of OpenOffice.org and in version 1.8.0.9-1 of hsqldb.
We recommend that you upgrade your OpenOffice.org and hsqldb packages.
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.