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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: 3046-1 Moderate: LibreOffice Remote Threat

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Calendar Grey August 4, 2016
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An exploit within LibreOffice might result in application failures or potential unauthorized execution of functions. Ensure your system is up to date.
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:

Yves Younan and Richard Johnson discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly

handled presentation files. If a user were tricked into opening a

specially crafted presentation file, a remote attacker could cause

LibreOffice to crash, and possibly execute arbitrary code.

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Topics Covered

security advisory remote code execution application crash ubuntu libreoffice

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libreoffice-core                1:3.5.7-0ubuntu12

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3046-1

CVE-2016-1513

August 04, 2016

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Topics Covered

security advisory remote code execution application crash ubuntu libreoffice

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:3.5.7-0ubuntu12

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