[USN-2331-1] LibreOffice vulnerability

[Jamie Strandboge]

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2331-1
September 02, 2014

libreoffice vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

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

Software Description:
- libreoffice: Office productivity suite

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.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libreoffice-core                1:4.2.6.3-0ubuntu1

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

References:
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2331-1
  CVE-2014-3524

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:4.2.6.3-0ubuntu1




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