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Mageia 8: MGASA-2023-0194 Critical: LibreOffice Array Issues

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Calendar Grey June 8, 2023
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent updates for LibreOffice have resolved critical security flaws in Mageia. Learn more about the enhancements introduced on June 8, 2023.
Improper Validation of Array Index vulnerability in the spreadsheet component of The Document Foundation LibreOffice allows an attacker to craft a spreadsheet document that will ca...

Summary

Improper Validation of Array Index vulnerability in the spreadsheet component of The Document Foundation LibreOffice allows an attacker to craft a spreadsheet document that will cause an array index underflow when loaded. In the affected versions of LibreOffice certain malformed spreadsheet formulas, such as AGGREGATE, could be created with less parameters passed to the formula interpreter than it expected, leading to an array index underflow, in which case there is a risk that arbitrary code could be executed. (CVE-2023-0950)
Improper access control in editor components of The Document Foundation LibreOffice allowed an attacker to craft a document that would cause external links to be loaded without prompt. In the affected versions of LibreOffice documents that used "floating frames" linked to external files, would load the contents of those frames without prompting the user for permission to do so. This was inconsistent with the treatment of other linked content in LibreOffice. (C...

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References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31964

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- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-0950

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-2255

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/libreoffice-7.4.5.1-1.1.mga8

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Publication date: 08 Jun 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0194.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2023-0950, CVE-2023-2255

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