USN-3210-1: LibreOffice vulnerability

23 February 2017

LibreOffice could be made to disclose files if it opened a specially crafted file.

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Ben Hayak discovered that it was possible to make LibreOffice Calc and Writer
disclose arbitrary files to an attacker if a user opened a specially crafted
file with embedded links.

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