USN-3022-1: LibreOffice vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3022-1 29th June, 2016 libreoffice vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 15.10 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 It was discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled RTF document files.If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted RTF document, aremote attacker could cause LibreOffice to crash, and possibly executearbitrary code. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: libreoffice-core 1:5.1.4-0ubuntu1 Ubuntu 15.10: libreoffice-core 1:5.0.6-0ubuntu1 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: libreoffice-core 1:3.5.7-0ubuntu11 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. After a standard system update you need to restart LibreOffice [ more… ]