USN-5661-1: LibreOffice vulnerabilities

6 October 2022

Several security issues were fixed in LibreOffice.

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It was discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly validated macro signatures.
If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, a remote
attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary macros.
(CVE-2022-26305)

It was discovered that Libreoffice incorrectly handled encrypting the
master key provided by the user for storing passwords for web connections.
A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain access to
passwords stored in the user's configuration data. (CVE-2022-26306,
CVE-2022-26307)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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