1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-3046-1

USN-3046-1: LibreOffice vulnerability

Publication date

4 August 2016

Overview

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

Releases

Packages

Details

Yves Younan and Richard Johnson discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly
handled presentation files. If a user were tricked into opening a
specially crafted presentation file, a remote attacker could cause
LibreOffice to crash, and possibly execute arbitrary code.

Yves Younan and Richard Johnson discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly
handled presentation files. If a user were tricked into opening a
specially crafted presentation file, a remote attacker could cause
LibreOffice to crash, and possibly execute arbitrary code.

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
12.04 precise libreoffice-core –  1:3.5.7-0ubuntu12

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