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Security Vulnerabilities: LibreOffice advises against OpenOffice


The developers of LibreOffice advise against its competitor OpenOffice. The Apache software contains security vulnerabilities and is not being further developed

"We are making progress in finding improvements to fix these issues," explains the ASF security team representative. In fact, the commits in the OpenOffice GitHub repository recently consisted mainly of the revision of typos and individual adjustments to translations. The current version 4.1.15 of OpenOffice was released in December 2023, with which the office suite received some bug fixes and updates to dictionaries.

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