New bugs has been found on StarOffice and OpenOffice suites by Sun Microsystems. The bugs can let an attacker take control of a user’s PC by either sending the user malicious documents or website addresses.

One flaw is located in StarOffice’s spreadsheet application called StarCalc. The other is on the functionality of how the suite handles URLs. Sun had not yet released a patch for either of the flaws and they also don’t have recommendations on how users can protect themselves for a possible future attack.

For the flaws on the OpenOffice suites, the newest release candidate which is version 2.2 includes patches against flaws that have been found.

Source: Computerworld