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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: USN-2400-1 Critical: LibreOffice OLE Handling Problem

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LibreOffice could be made to embed sensitive information into documents.
=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2400-1
November 10, 2014

libreoffice vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

LibreOffice could be made to embed sensitive information into documents.

Software Description:
- libreoffice: Office productivity suite

Details:

It was discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled OLE preview
generation. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted document, an
attacker could possibly exploit this to embed arbitrary data into
documents.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libreoffice-core                1:3.5.7-0ubuntu7

After a standard system update you need to restart LibreOffice to make all
the necessary changes.

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2400-1
  CVE-2014-3575

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:3.5.7-0ubuntu7


Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: USN-2400-1 Critical: LibreOffice OLE Handling Problem

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LibreOffice could be made to embed sensitive information into documents.

Summary

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: libreoffice-core 1:3.5.7-0ubuntu7 After a standard system update you need to restart LibreOffice to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2400-1

CVE-2014-3575

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November 10, 2014

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:3.5.7-0ubuntu7

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