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Ubuntu: USN-3472-1 (CVE-2017-12607): LibreOffice vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3472-1 (CVE-2017-12607): LibreOffice vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/11/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/02/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

A vulnerability in OpenOffice's PPT file parser before 4.1.4, and specifically in PPTStyleSheet, allows attackers to craft malicious documents that cause denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libreoffice-core

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