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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2020:4628 Low: LibreOffice Security Update

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Calendar Grey November 3, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A critical patch for LibreOffice on CentOS has been released to tackle minor vulnerabilities, significantly improving the security posture.
An update for libreoffice, libcmis, and liborcus is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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 later upstream version: libreoffice (6.3.6.2), libcmis (0.5.2), liborcus (0.14.1). (BZ#1796893)
Security Fix(es):
* libreoffice: 'stealth mode' remote resource restrictions bypass (CVE-2020-12802)
* libreoffice: forms allowed to be submitted to any URI could result in local file overwrite (CVE-2020-12803)
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 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update remote access file overwrite Red Hat Enterprise Linux low impact libreoffice

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12802 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12803 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: libcmis-0.5.2-1.el8.src.rpm liborcus-0.14.1-1.el8.src.rpm libreoffice-6.3.6.2-3.el8.src.rpm
noarch: autocorr-af-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-bg-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-ca-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-cs-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-da-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-de-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-en-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-es-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-fa-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-fi-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-fr-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-ga-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-hr-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-hu-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-is-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-it-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-ja-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-ko-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-lb-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-lt-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-mn-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-nl-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-pl-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-pt-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-ro-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-ru-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-sk-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-sl-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-sr-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm autocorr-sv-6.3.6.2-3.el8.noarch.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4628-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4628
Issue date: 2020-11-03

Topic

An update for libreoffice, libcmis, and liborcus is now available for RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.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 remote access file overwrite Red Hat Enterprise Linux low impact libreoffice

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - noarch, ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1796893 - Rebase LibreOffice to 6.3

1819798 - [fix available] Start Center crash after pressing Help button

1824876 - LibreOffice segfaults on Writer/Calc file open without libwps installed

1841907 - Exiting changed documents from localized (Translated) Writer results in garbled exit "Save Document" dialog box

1848346 - CVE-2020-12803 libreoffice: forms allowed to be submitted to any URI could result in local file overwrite

1850226 - CVE-2020-12802 libreoffice: 'stealth mode' remote resource restrictions bypass

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