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Red Hat Linux 6: RHSA-2017:0979-01 Moderate: LibreOffice Disclosure

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Calendar Grey April 18, 2017
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Enhance your security protocols with the recent update from Red Hat for LibreOffice, addressing a moderate severity vulnerability. Discover more details.
An update for libreoffice is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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.
Security Fix(es):
* It was found that LibreOffice disclosed contents of a file specified in an embedded object's preview. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to expose details of a system running LibreOffice as an online service via a crafted document. (CVE-2017-3157)

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Topics Covered

security advisory update red hat moderate severity linux advisory libreoffice arbitrary disclosure

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3157 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: libreoffice-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.src.rpm
i386: libreoffice-base-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-calc-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-core-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-debuginfo-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-draw-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-emailmerge-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-graphicfilter-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-headless-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-impress-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-af-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-ar-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-as-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-bg-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-bn-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-ca-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-cs-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-cy-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-da-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-de-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-dz-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-el-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-en-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-es-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-et-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.1.i686.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:0979-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0979
Issue date: 2017-04-18

Topic

An update for libreoffice is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.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 update red hat moderate severity linux advisory libreoffice arbitrary disclosure

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, noarch, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) - i386, noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1425844 - CVE-2017-3157 libreoffice: Arbitrary file disclosure in Calc and Writer

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