Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2578-1
27th April, 2015
libreoffice vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 14.10
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- 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
Alexander Cherepanov discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled
certain RTF 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. (CVE-2014-9093)
It was discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled certain HWP files.
If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted HWP document, a
remote attacker could cause LibreOffice to crash, and possibly execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-1774)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- Ubuntu 14.10:
-
libreoffice-core
1:4.3.7~rc2-0ubuntu1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
libreoffice-core
1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
-
libreoffice-core
1:3.5.7-0ubuntu8
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.