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Mageia: 2020-0258 Critical: LibreOffice Encryption Issue

This update increase Libreoffice to version 6.4.4.2 It fixes Security issues and add kf5 support. If LibreOffice has an encrypted document open and crashes, that document is auto-saved encrypted. On restart, LibreOffice offers . MGASA-2020-0258 - Updated libreoffice packages fix security vulnerability Publication date: 12 Jun 2020 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0258.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 7 CVE: CVE-2020-12801 This update increase Libreoffice to version 6.4.4.2 It fixes Security issues and add kf5 support. If LibreOffice has an encrypted document open and crashes, that document is auto-saved encrypted. On restart, LibreOffice offersto restore the document and prompts for the password to decrypt it. If the recovery is successful, and if the file format of the recovered document was not LibreOffice's default ODF file format, then affected versions of LibreOffice default that subsequent saves of the document are unencrypted. This may lead to a user accidentally saving a MSOffice file format document unencrypted while believing it to be encrypted. In the fixed versions, encrypted recovered MSOffice format documents default to encrypted save. References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26641 - - https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.3 - https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.4 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12801 SRPMS: - 7/core/libabw-0.1.3-1.mga7 - 7/core/libcdr-0.1.6-1.mga7 - 7/core/libmwaw-0.3.16-1.mga7 - 7/core/libvisio-0.1.7-1.mga7 - 7/core/libwps-0.4.11-1.mga7 - 7/core/libixion-0.15.0-6.mga7 - 7/core/mdds-1.5.0-1.mga7 - 7/core/fmt-6.2.1-1.1.mga7 - 7/core/spdlog-1.6.0-1.mga7 - 7/core/qr-code-generator-1.5.0-6.mga7 - 7/core/libreoffice-6.4.4.2-1.mga7 - 7/core/celestia-1.7.0-0.20190423git.920a0c8.2.1.mga7 - 7/core/kodi-18.7-1.1.mga7 . Urgent notice regarding Mageia's LibreOffice patch addressing vulnerabilities in encryption post-crash incident. More information available.. Mageia LibreOffice Update, LibreOfficeSecurity Fix, Document Encryption, Software Update. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Jun 12, 2020 •Critical Mageia