USN-2899-1: LibreOffice vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2899-1

16th February, 2016

libreoffice vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 15.10
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

LibreOffice 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

It was discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled LWP document files.
If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted LWP document, a
remote attacker could cause LibreOffice to crash, and possibly execute
arbitrary code.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.10:

libreoffice-core 1:5.0.5~rc2-0ubuntu2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

libreoffice-core 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu4

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

libreoffice-core 1:3.5.7-0ubuntu10

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

References

CVE-2016-0794, CVE-2016-0795