USN-2578-1: LibreOffice vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2578-1

27th April, 2015

libreoffice vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 14.10
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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)

Update instructions

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

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

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://ift.tt/17VXqjU.

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

References

CVE-2014-9093, CVE-2015-1774

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