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Red Hat: RHSA-2022-7461 Moderate: LibreOffice Incorrect Trust Validation

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Calendar Grey November 8, 2022
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Patch applied for LibreOffice in Red Hat Enterprise Linux addresses several safety concerns; system restart necessary for updates to take effect.
An update for libreoffice 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.
Security Fix(es):
* libreoffice: Incorrect trust validation of signature with ambiguous KeyInfo children (CVE-2021-25636)
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 8.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat moderate impact signature validation product update libreoffice

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-25636 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.7_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: libreoffice-6.4.7.2-11.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: libreoffice-base-debuginfo-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libreoffice-calc-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libreoffice-calc-debuginfo-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libreoffice-core-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libreoffice-core-debuginfo-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libreoffice-debuginfo-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libreoffice-debugsource-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libreoffice-glade-debuginfo-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libreoffice-graphicfilter-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libreoffice-graphicfilter-debuginfo-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libreoffice-gtk3-debuginfo-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libreoffice-help-en-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libreoffice-impress-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libreoffice-impress-debuginfo-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libreoffice-langpack-en-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libreoffice-officebean-debuginfo-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libreoffice-ogltrans-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libreoffice-ogltrans-debuginfo-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libreoffice-pdfimport-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libreoffice-pdfimport-debuginfo-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libreoffice-postgresql-debuginfo-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libreoffice-pyuno-6.4.7.2-11.el8.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:7461-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7461
Issue date: 2022-11-08

Topic

An update for libreoffice is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.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 moderate impact signature validation product update libreoffice

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2056955 - CVE-2021-25636 libreoffice: Incorrect trust validation of signature with ambiguous KeyInfo children

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