There are security patches for earlier versions of Open Office.
The product is now at version 3.0, which you can get here:Quote:
OpenOffice has released two patches to repair older versions of its open-source office productivity suite.
The two vulnerabilities do not affect OpenOffice.org's latest 3.0 version, released earlier this month. Software versions prior to version 2.4.2 are affected.
http://download.openoffice.org/
That is the latest stable version. If you go elsewhere, be careful as there is also a beta 2 out there.