Re: A question about "ssconvert" and safety from macro viruses

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

At least for now, ssconvert does not execute any macro.

Regards,
Jean

Le mardi 22 juin 2010 à 16:14 +0200, Helge Hafting a écrit :
> The "ssconvert" utility can convert gnumeric, openoffice and excel 
> spreadsheets to latex.
>
> But is this conversion safe in case of macro viruses? At least excel can 
> have those, I don't know about the other two.
>
>
> I plan on using this to implement spreadsheet import in the LyX document 
> processor. But this will be allowed *only* if there is a guarantee that 
> "ssconvert" can be used safely.
>
> So I wonder: Will ssconvert merely read the spreadsheet and output some 
> latex code, or are there cases where it will also execute script code 
> embedded in the spreadsheet?
>
> In the latter case, is there a way of avoiding this, such as using
> options for suppressing such scripts.
>
>
> I do not worry about ssconvert doing math calculation, the problem is 
> script/macro languages capable of reading/writing arbitrary files, or 
> even executing arbitrary binaries. Such things makes it possible to 
> propagate a macro virus, a capability that is not allowed.
>
> Helge Hafting
>
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