[Esd-l] OpenOffice Macro scanning?

John Hardin jhardin at impsec.org
Wed May 29 21:45:15 PDT 2002


On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 18:28, Simon Matthews wrote:
> John and others,
>
> Any thoughts on scanning OpenOffice/StarOffice documents for harmful
macros?

Does anybody have any idea what that would look like? A harmful macro in
a Word document might not even execute in OOo.

The native file format is XML.

What are the capabilities of the OOo macro or scripting language?

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