USN-1495-1: LibreOffice vulnerabilities

2 July 2012

LibreOffice could be made to crash or potentially run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

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Integer overflows were discovered in the graphics loading code of several
different image types. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted file, an attacker could cause LibreOffice to crash or possibly
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the
program. (CVE-2012-1149)

Sven Jacobi discovered an integer overflow when processing Escher graphics
records. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted PowerPoint
file, an attacker could cause LibreOffice to crash or possibly execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
(CVE-2012-2334)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 11.04

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

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