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.
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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