Executive Summary



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Summary
Title LibreOffice vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3472-1 First vendor Publication 2017-11-02
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2017-11-02
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:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 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 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:

Marcin Noga discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled PPT documents. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted PPT document, a remote attacker could cause LibreOffice to crash, and possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-12607)

Marcin Noga discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled Word documents. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted Word document, a remote attacker could cause LibreOffice to crash, and possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-12608)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libreoffice-core 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu5.2

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

References:
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3472-1
CVE-2017-12607, CVE-2017-12608

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:4.2.8-0ubuntu5.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3472-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 15
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-12-21 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1214.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-11-09 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4022.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-11-03 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3472-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-11-02 Name : The remote Windows host has an application installed that is affected by mult...
File : openoffice_414.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-26 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_27229c67b8ff11e79f79ac9e174be3af.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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