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Ubuntu 14.10 USN-2578-1 Critical: LibreOffice Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey April 27, 2015
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2579-1 addresses vulnerabilities within the OpenOffice suite, highlighting issues that could lead to application failures and risks of executing malicious code.
LibreOffice could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

LibreOffice could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it

opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- libreoffice: Office productivity suite

Details:

Alexander Cherepanov discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled

certain RTF files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted

RTF document, a remote attacker could cause LibreOffice to crash, and

possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-9093)

It was discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled certain HWP files.

If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted HWP document, a

remote attacker could cause LibreOffice to crash, and possibly execute

arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-1774)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue update code execution Ubuntu crash risk LibreOffice

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.10:
  libreoffice-core                1:4.3.7~rc2-0ubuntu1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libreoffice-core                1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libreoffice-core                1:3.5.7-0ubuntu8

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2578-1

CVE-2014-9093, CVE-2015-1774

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April 27, 2015

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue update code execution Ubuntu crash risk LibreOffice

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:4.3.7~rc2-0ubuntu1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:3.5.7-0ubuntu8

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