Malicious spreadsheets can make LibreOffice and OpenOffice run Java code with Java enabled; LibreOffice has fixed the flaw.

This is from the linked article written at Malwarebytes. ...document-based attacks usually incorporate some kind of social engineering component. From being lured into opening up an attachment to ...

Free and open-source software gets a lot of praise thanks to how good it ends up being, especially compared to proprietary software. For years, I thought LibreOffice was the best option, especially ...

It used to be that OpenOffice.org was the leading open source alternative to proprietary productivity suites like , and it was included in pretty much all the major Linux distributions. Then Oracle ...

A vulnerability affects LibreOffice and OpenOffice equally. Attackers can inject code with prepared documents.

I avoid office suites too, but I have to use a spreadsheet and a presentation tool sometimes. I have the opposite experience from you; I find LibreOffice calc and impress nicer than in the past and ...

One of the questions would be why didn’t Oracle toss the code over to The Document Foundation, which is currently the maintainer of LibreOffice, the OpenOffice.org-forked office suite. On the surface ...

It looks to me as if the malicious hacker would at least have to target the OS type. Probably could do a test for OS in the script but lazy bad guys would probably just target Windows. On the subject ...