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Fedora 24: 2017-05-14 Moderate LibreOffice Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 15, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 24 receives a critical LibreOffice upgrade that mitigates major heap overflow vulnerabilities found in its filters, promising improved security.
- CVE-2017-7870 Heap-buffer-overflow in WMF filter - CVE-2016-10327 Heap-buffer- overflow in EMF filter

Summary

LibreOffice is an Open Source, community-developed, office productivity suite.

It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor,

spreadsheet, presentation manager, formula editor and drawing program, with a

user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated

and flexible, LibreOffice also works transparently with a variety of file

formats, including Microsoft Office File Formats.

- CVE-2017-7870 Heap-buffer-overflow in WMF filter - CVE-2016-10327 Heap-buffer-overflow in EMF filter

[ 1 ] Bug #1444065 - CVE-2017-7856 CVE-2017-7870 CVE-2017-7882 libreoffice: various flaws [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444065

su -c 'dnf upgrade libreoffice' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 24
Version: 5.1.6.2
Release: 8.fc24
Summary: Free Software Productivity Suite

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