1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-3579-1

USN-3579-1: LibreOffice vulnerability

Publication date

21 February 2018

Overview

LibreOffice would allow unintended access to files over the network.

Releases

Packages

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)

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)

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
17.10 artful libreoffice-core –  1:5.4.5-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
16.04 xenial libreoffice-core –  1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial3
14.04 trusty libreoffice-core –  1:4.2.8-0ubuntu5.3

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