Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 714
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 714

Fedora 38: Update on LibreOffice for Macro Vulnerabilities Release

fedora
Calendar Grey December 13, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent update for Fedora 38 addresses significant security flaws in input validation and macro handling within LibreOffice, incorporating crucial patches.
7.5.9.2

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.

Update Information:

7.5.9.2

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora input validation LibreOffice macro permissions

Change Log

* Thu Dec 7 2023 Gwyn Ciesla - 1:7.5.9.2-1 - 7.5.9.2

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2254004 - CVE-2023-6185 libreoffice: Improper Input Validation leading to arbitrary gstreamer plugin execution [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254004 [ 2 ] Bug #2254006 - CVE-2023-6186 libreoffice: Insufficient macro permission validation leading to macro execution [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254006

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-0d971cd6aa' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Name: libreoffice
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 7.5.9.2
Release: 1.fc38
URL: https://www.libreoffice.org/
Summary: Free Software Productivity Suite

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora input validation LibreOffice macro permissions

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Your message here