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Debian 8: DLA-1947-1 Critical: LibreOffice Document Security Issues

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Calendar Grey October 6, 2019
Dist Debian Esm H88
Numerous significant bugs in LibreOffice addressed in latest Debian patch, improving file reliability and safeguarding user data.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in LibreOffice, the office productivity suite

Summary

CVE-2019-9848

Nils Emmerich discovered that malicious documents could execute
arbitrary Python code via LibreLogo.

CVE-2019-9849

Matei Badanoiu discovered that the stealth mode did not apply to
bullet graphics.

CVE-2019-9850

It was discovered that the protections implemented in CVE-2019-9848
could be bypassed because of insufficient URL validation.

CVE-2019-9851

Gabriel Masei discovered that malicious documents could execute
arbitrary pre-installed scripts.

CVE-2019-9852

Nils Emmerich discovered that the protection implemented to address
CVE-2018-16858 could be bypassed by a URL encoding attack.

CVE-2019-9853

Nils Emmerich discovered that malicious documents could bypass
document security settings to execute macros contained within the
document.

CVE-2019-9854

It was discovered that the protection implemented to address
CVE-2019-9852 could be bypassed because of insufficient input
sanitization.

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<pre><font face="Courier">Package: libreoffice
Version: 1:4.3.3-2+deb8u13
CVE ID: CVE-2019-9848 CVE-2019-9849 CVE-2019-9850 CVE-2019-9851

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