CVE-2010-3689: Apache Openoffice

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

soffice in OpenOffice.org (OOo) 3.x before 3.3 places a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory.

Affected products

• Apache Openoffice: from 3.0.0, before 3.3.0 (fixed in 3.3.0)
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 8.04 only; version 9.10 only; version 10.04 only; version 10.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2011-01-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.