USN-2331-1: LibreOffice vulnerability
2 September 2014
LibreOffice Calc could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Releases
Packages
- libreoffice - Office productivity suite
Details
Rohan Durve and James Kettle discovered LibreOffice Calc sometimes allowed
for command injection when opening spreadsheets. If a user were tricked
into opening a crafted Calc spreadsheet, an attacker could exploit this to
run programs as your login.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 14.04
After a standard system update you need to restart LibreOffice to make
all the necessary changes.