On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 05:06:29PM -0500, tom smith wrote:
> I don't think that this is such a good idea. Does this not open the door to VBA
> exploits on Linux?
> Smitty
> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/08/1726205
Probably not. Linux (or any other proper unixy OS) is protected against
VBA the same way it's protected against any other scripting attack:
there is no central, pervasive, system-wide integrated codebase that
runs arbitrary code automatically without the user telling it to do so,
and even if it did, the privilege separation that exists in a unixlike
environment would prevent it from getting too far out of hand.
It does, however, open the OpenOffice.org application suite itself to
VBA exploits. They just won't get very far, since the OO.o suite
doesn't have the kind of deep OS hooks that MS Office has on Windows.
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