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USN-1536-1: LibreOffice vulnerability

13 August 2012

LibreOffice could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

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Releases

Packages

Details

It was discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled certain encryption
tags in Open Document Text (.odt) files. If a user were tricked into
opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause LibreOffice to
crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
invoking the program.

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Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 11.04

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

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