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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3472-1
November 02, 2017
libreoffice vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
– Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary:
LibreOffice could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a specially crafted file.
Software Description:
– libreoffice: Office productivity suite
Details:
Marcin Noga discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled PPT documents.
If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted PPT document, a
remote attacker could cause LibreOffice to crash, and possibly execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-12607)
Marcin Noga discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled Word documents.
If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted Word document, a
remote attacker could cause LibreOffice to crash, and possibly execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-12608)
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libreoffice-core 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu5.2
After a standard system update you need to restart LibreOffice to make all
the necessary changes.
References:
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3472-1
CVE-2017-12607, CVE-2017-12608
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:4.2.8-0ubuntu5.2
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