Low: libreoffice security and bug fix update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-16858   CVE-2018-16858   CVE-2018-16858  

Synopsis

Low: libreoffice security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

An update for libreoffice is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

LibreOffice is an open source, community-developed office productivity suite. It includes key desktop applications, such as a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation manager, a formula editor, and a drawing program. LibreOffice replaces OpenOffice and provides a similar but enhanced and extended office suite.

Security Fix(es):

  • libreoffice: Arbitrary python functions in arbitrary modules on the filesystem can be executed without warning (CVE-2018-16858)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

All running instances of LibreOffice applications must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

  • BZ - 1066844 - gnome docs depend on libreoffice (was: libreoffice installed for Client without @office-suite being selected)
  • BZ - 1649841 - CVE-2018-16858 libreoffice: Arbitrary python functions in arbitrary modules on the filesystem can be executed without warning

CVEs

References