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Mageia 8: 2021-0471 Moderate: LibreOffice Improper Certificate Validation

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Calendar Grey October 12, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent LibreOffice updates address a flaw related to Inadequate Certificate Authentication in Mageia.
LibreOffice supports digital signatures of ODF documents and macros within documents, presenting visual aids that no alteration of the document occurred since the last signing and ...

Summary

LibreOffice supports digital signatures of ODF documents and macros within documents, presenting visual aids that no alteration of the document occurred since the last signing and that the signature is valid.
An Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in LibreOffice allowed an attacker to self sign an ODF document, with a signature untrusted by the target, then modify it to change the signature algorithm to an invalid (or unknown to LibreOffice) algorithm and LibreOffice would incorrectly present such a signature with an unknown algorithm as a valid signature issued by a trusted person.
This updates to version 7.2.2.2 which includes the fix as well as other bugfixes.

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29542

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- https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.1

- https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.2

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-25635

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/libreoffice-7.2.2.2-1.mga8

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Publication date: 12 Oct 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0471.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-25635

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