Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3022-1

29th June, 2016

libreoffice vulnerability

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

• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 15.10
• 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

It was discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled RTF document 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.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

libreoffice-core

1:5.1.4-0ubuntu1

Ubuntu 15.10:

libreoffice-core

1:5.0.6-0ubuntu1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

libreoffice-core

1:3.5.7-0ubuntu11

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

References

CVE-2016-4324