Low: libreoffice security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Low: libreoffice security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

An update for libreoffice, libcmis, and liborcus is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: libreoffice (6.3.6.2), libcmis (0.5.2), liborcus (0.14.1). (BZ#1796893)

Security Fix(es):

  • libreoffice: 'stealth mode' remote resource restrictions bypass (CVE-2020-12802)
  • libreoffice: forms allowed to be submitted to any URI could result in local file overwrite (CVE-2020-12803)

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 8.3 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 for x86_64 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le

Fixes

  • BZ - 1796893 - Rebase LibreOffice to 6.3
  • BZ - 1819798 - [fix available] Start Center crash after pressing Help button
  • BZ - 1824876 - LibreOffice segfaults on Writer/Calc file open without libwps installed
  • BZ - 1841907 - Exiting changed documents from localized (Translated) Writer results in garbled exit "Save Document" dialog box
  • BZ - 1848346 - CVE-2020-12803 libreoffice: forms allowed to be submitted to any URI could result in local file overwrite
  • BZ - 1850226 - CVE-2020-12802 libreoffice: 'stealth mode' remote resource restrictions bypass

CVEs

References