USN-3046-1: LibreOffice vulnerability
USN-3046-1: LibreOffice vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3046-1 4th August, 2016 libreoffice vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.04 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 Yves Younan and Richard Johnson discovered that LibreOffice incorrectlyhandled presentation files. If a user were tricked into opening aspecially crafted presentation file, a remote attacker could causeLibreOffice to crash, and possibly execute arbitrary code. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: libreoffice-core 1:3.5.7-0ubuntu12 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 makeall the necessary changes. References CVE-2016-1513 Source: USN-3046-1: LibreOffice vulnerability