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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2331-1

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2331-1
Posted Sep 2, 2014
Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2331-1 - 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.

tags | advisory
systems | linux, ubuntu
advisories | CVE-2014-3524
SHA-256 | e975a73a0a442074aa9887bddf891c938e8f8401b536a2d8d8041170fede7576

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2331-1

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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:
https://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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