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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2019-2130 Low: LibreOffice Security Fix

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Debian releases a moderate level notice regarding GIMP, outlining patches and vulnerability resolutions for Debian 10.
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.
Security Fix(es):
* libreoffice: Arbitrary python functions in arbitrary modules on the filesystem can be executed without warning (CVE-2018-16858)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update red hat bug fix arbitrary code execution low severity libreoffice

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16858 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.7_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: libreoffice-5.3.6.1-21.el7.src.rpm
noarch: autocorr-af-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-bg-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-ca-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-cs-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-da-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-de-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-en-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-es-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-fa-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-fi-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-fr-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-ga-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-hr-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-hu-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-is-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-it-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-ja-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-ko-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-lb-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-lt-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-mn-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-nl-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-pl-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-pt-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-ro-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-ru-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-sk-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-sl-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-sr-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-sv-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm autocorr-tr-5.3.6.1-21.el7.noarch.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2130-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2130
Issue date: 2019-08-06

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 Low. 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 bug fix arbitrary code execution low severity libreoffice

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) - 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

1066844 - gnome docs depend on libreoffice (was: libreoffice installed for Client without @office-suite being selected)

1649841 - CVE-2018-16858 libreoffice: Arbitrary python functions in arbitrary modules on the filesystem can be executed without warning

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