Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3046-1
4th August, 2016
libreoffice vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- 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
Yves Younan and Richard Johnson discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly
handled presentation files. If a user were tricked into opening a
specially crafted presentation file, 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 12.04 LTS:
libreoffice-core
1:3.5.7-0ubuntu12
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.