USN-3472-1: LibreOffice vulnerabilities
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3472-1
2nd November, 2017
libreoffice vulnerabilities
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 version:
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
libreoffice-core
1:4.2.8-0ubuntu5.2
To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart LibreOffice to make all
the necessary changes.
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