USN-2400-1: LibreOffice vulnerability
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2400-1
10th November, 2014
libreoffice vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Summary
LibreOffice could be made to embed sensitive information into documents.
Software description
- libreoffice - Office productivity suite
Details
It was discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled OLE preview
generation. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted document, an
attacker could possibly exploit this to embed arbitrary data into
documents.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
- libreoffice-core 1:3.5.7-0ubuntu7
To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://bit.ly/1aJDvTw.
After a standard system update you need to restart LibreOffice to make all
the necessary changes.
References
from Ubuntu Security Notices http://bit.ly/1waOeQc