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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: USN-3022-1 Critical: LibreOffice Crash Risk

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Calendar Grey June 30, 2016
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3022-1 highlights a security flaw in LibreOffice that may lead to application crashes or potentially allow arbitrary code execution.
LibreOffice could be made to crash or run programs as your login if itopened 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:

It was discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled RTF document 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.

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  libreoffice-core                1:5.1.4-0ubuntu1

Ubuntu 15.10:
  libreoffice-core                1:5.0.6-0ubuntu1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libreoffice-core                1:3.5.7-0ubuntu11

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3022-1

CVE-2016-4324

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June 29, 2016

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Topics Covered

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:5.1.4-0ubuntu1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:5.0.6-0ubuntu1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:3.5.7-0ubuntu11

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