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Red Hat EL 7: RHSA-2016:2579-02 Moderate: LibreOffice Code Execution

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Calendar Grey November 3, 2016
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Ubuntu notification for OpenOffice vulnerabilities and resolutions classified as moderate severity with comprehensive risk assessments.
An update for libreoffice is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

All running instances of LibreOffice applications must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Summary

LibreOffice is an open source, community-developed office productivity suite. It includes key desktop applications, such as a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation manager, a formula editor, and a drawing program. LibreOffice replaces OpenOffice and provides a similar but enhanced and extended office suite.
The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: libreoffice (5.0.6.2). (BZ#1290148)
Security Fix(es):
* Multiple flaws were found in the Lotus Word Pro (LWP) document format parser in LibreOffice. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted LWP document, an attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user opening the file. (CVE-2016-0794, CVE-2016-0795)
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat bug fix arbitrary code execution LibreOffice modest impact

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0794 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0795 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.3_Release_Notes/index.html

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: libcmis-0.5.1-2.el7.src.rpm libpagemaker-0.0.3-1.el7.src.rpm libreoffice-5.0.6.2-3.el7.src.rpm
noarch: autocorr-af-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-bg-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-ca-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-cs-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-da-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-de-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-en-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-es-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-fa-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-fi-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-fr-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-ga-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-hr-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-hu-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-is-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-it-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-ja-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-ko-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-lb-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-lt-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-mn-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-nl-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-pl-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-pt-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-ro-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-ru-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-sk-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-sl-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-sr-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-sv-5.0.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:2579-02
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2579.html
Issue date: 2016-11-03

Topic

An update for libreoffice is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat bug fix arbitrary code execution LibreOffice modest impact

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1161240 - [fix available]Master Slide Elements of Footer, Number, and Date are not delectable easily

1168757 - [fix available] Selecting multiple slides is not reflected in Print dialog

1238413 - [abrt] [fix-available] libreoffice-core: SfxViewFrame::GetFrame() const(): soffice.bin killed by SIGSEGV

1255811 - [fix available] Calc: Random Number generator can't be edited and applied for cell location

1256843 - [fix available] In Start Center, if you open Templates, there is no "Close" or "X" in upper right corner of Templates dialog box.

1257635 - [fix available] sometimes LO doesn't see cups printers1263949 - [fix available] Writer fails to open correct ODT file from WebDAV share

1290148 - rebase to libreoffice 5.0 in RHEL 7.3

1290152 - rebase libcmis to 0.5.0

1290153 - rebase mdds to 0.12.1

1306609 - CVE-2016-0794 CVE-2016-0795 libreoffice: Multiple out-of-bounds overflows in lwp filter

1330591 - [fix available] Not able to add RH Google Drive as a server

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