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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: RHSA-2018-0517-01 Moderate Risk of LibreOffice

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Calendar Grey March 13, 2018
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has issued a vital security update for LibreOffice in its Enterprise Linux to mitigate risks of remote file leaks and protect sensitive data integrity and confidentiality
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):
* libreoffice: Remote arbitrary file disclosure vulnerability via WEBSERVICE formula (CVE-2018-6871)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat Enterprise Linux libreoffice remote file disclosure

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6871 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_9.2.src.rpm
i386: libreoffice-base-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-calc-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-core-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-debuginfo-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-draw-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-emailmerge-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-graphicfilter-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-headless-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-impress-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-af-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-ar-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-as-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-bg-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-bn-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-ca-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-cs-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-cy-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-da-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-de-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-dz-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-el-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-en-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-es-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm libreoffice-langpack-et-4.3.7.2-2.el6_9.2.i686.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:0517-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0517
Issue date: 2018-03-13

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat Enterprise Linux libreoffice remote file 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

1543120 - CVE-2018-6871 libreoffice: Remote arbitrary file disclosure vulnerability via WEBSERVICE formula

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