Executive Summary

Summary
Title LibreOffice vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3579-1 First vendor Publication 2018-02-21
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-02-21
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:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 17.10 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

LibreOffice would allow unintended access to files over the network.

Software Description: - libreoffice: Office productivity suite

Details:

It was discovered that =WEBSERVICE calls in a document could be used to read arbitrary files. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2018-6871)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 17.10:
libreoffice-core 1:5.4.5-0ubuntu0.17.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libreoffice-core 1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial3

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libreoffice-core 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu5.3

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

References:
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3579-1
CVE-2018-6871

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:5.4.5-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:4.2.8-0ubuntu5.3

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3579-1

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 350
Os 3
Os 1
Os 2
Os 2
Os 2
Os 3
Os 2
Os 2

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2018-09-18 LibreOffice WEBSERVICE arbitrary file disclosure attempt
RuleID : 47566 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2018-09-18 LibreOffice WEBSERVICE arbitrary file disclosure attempt
RuleID : 47565 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-OFFICE

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-03-15 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-0517.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-12 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-0418.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-02-26 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_289269f10def11e899b0d017c2987f9a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-02-20 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201802-06.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-02-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-3eb4d8e4c4.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-02-12 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4111.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2018-03-08 09:21:48
  • Multiple Updates
2018-02-27 21:22:18
  • Multiple Updates
2018-02-22 00:19:46
  • First insertion