Executive Summary

Summary
Title LibreOffice vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2331-1 First vendor Publication 2014-09-02
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2014-09-02
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2331-1
CVE-2014-3524

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:4.2.6.3-0ubuntu1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2331-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-77 Improper Sanitization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26814
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26814
Title: USN-2331-1 -- libreoffice vulnerability
Description: LibreOffice Calc could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2331-1
CVE-2014-3524
Version: 3
Platform(s): Ubuntu 14.04
Product(s): libreoffice
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26831
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26831
Title: DEPRECATED: USN-2331-1 -- libreoffice vulnerability
Description: LibreOffice Calc could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2331-1
CVE-2014-3524
Version: 4
Platform(s): Ubuntu 14.04
Product(s): libreoffice
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 12
Application 194

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2014-08-28 IAVM : 2014-B-0117 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in Apache OpenOffice
Severity : Category II - VMSKEY : V0054059

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-03-10 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201603-05.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-17 Name : The remote host contains an application that is affected by multiple vulnerab...
File : libreoffice_4263.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-17 Name : The remote host contains an application that is affected by multiple vulnerab...
File : libreoffice_431.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-09-03 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2331-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-27 Name : The remote Windows host has an application installed that is affected by mult...
File : openoffice_411.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-09-04 13:24:43
  • Multiple Updates
2014-09-02 21:22:37
  • Multiple Updates
2014-09-02 21:22:36
  • First insertion