1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-2331-1

USN-2331-1: LibreOffice vulnerability

Publication date

2 September 2014

Overview

LibreOffice Calc could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Releases

Packages

Details

Rohan Durve and James Kettle discovered LibreOffice Calc sometimes allowed
for command injection when opening spreadsheets. If a user were tricked
into opening a crafted Calc spreadsheet, an attacker could exploit this to
run programs as your login.

Rohan Durve and James Kettle discovered LibreOffice Calc sometimes allowed
for command injection when opening spreadsheets. If a user were tricked
into opening a crafted Calc spreadsheet, an attacker could exploit this to
run programs as your login.

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
14.04 trusty libreoffice-core –  1:4.2.6.3-0ubuntu1

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