vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3579-2: LibreOffice regression

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Feb 28, 2018
Added
Mar 1, 2018
Modified
Feb 19, 2025

Description

USN-3579-1 fixed a vulnerability in LibreOffice. After upgrading, it was no longer possible for LibreOffice to open documents from certain locations outside of the user's home directory. This update fixes the problem.


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Original advisory details:


It was discovered that =WEBSERVICE calls in a document could be used to read arbitrary files. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2018-6871)

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-libreoffice-common
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