Moderate: libreoffice security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-38745   CVE-2023-0950   CVE-2023-1183   CVE-2023-2255  

Synopsis

Moderate: libreoffice security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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Topic

An update for libreoffice is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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: Empty entry in Java class path (CVE-2022-38745)
  • libreoffice: Array index underflow in Calc formula parsing (CVE-2023-0950)
  • libreoffice: Arbitrary file write (CVE-2023-1183)
  • libreoffice: Remote documents loaded without prompt via IFrame (CVE-2023-2255)

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 9.3 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 9 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 9 x86_64
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le

Fixes

  • BZ - 2182044 - CVE-2022-38745 libreoffice: Empty entry in Java class path
  • BZ - 2208506 - CVE-2023-1183 libreoffice: Arbitrary file write
  • BZ - 2210185 - CVE-2023-2255 libreoffice: Remote documents loaded without prompt via IFrame
  • BZ - 2210186 - CVE-2023-0950 libreoffice: Array index underflow in Calc formula parsing