Mageia 2019-0102: libreoffice security update
Summary
Alex Infuehr discovered a directory traversal vulnerability which could
result in the execution of Python script code when opening a malformed
document (CVE-2018-16858).
The libreoffice package has been updated to version 6.1.5.2, fixing this
issue, and including several other bug fixes and enhancements. Several
supporting library packages have been updated as well.
Here's the list of improvements from 5.3 to 6.1:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.4
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.0
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.1
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24309
- https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2018-16858/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4381
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16858
Resolution
MGASA-2019-0102 - Updated libreoffice packages fix security vulnerability
SRPMS
- 6/core/libabw-0.1.2-1.mga6
- 6/core/libcdr-0.1.5-1.mga6
- 6/core/libcmis-0.5.2-1.mga6
- 6/core/libe-book-0.1.3-1.mga6
- 6/core/libetonyek-0.1.9-1.mga6
- 6/core/libfreehand-0.1.2-2.mga6
- 6/core/libmspub-0.1.4-1.mga6
- 6/core/libmwaw-0.3.14-2.mga6
- 6/core/libodfgen-0.1.7-1.mga6
- 6/core/libpagemaker-0.0.4-1.mga6
- 6/core/libstaroffice-0.0.6-1.mga6
- 6/core/libvisio-0.1.6-1.mga6
- 6/core/libwpg-0.3.3-1.mga6
- 6/core/libwps-0.4.10-1.mga6
- 6/core/libzmf-0.0.2-1.mga6
- 6/core/cppunit-1.14.0-1.mga6
- 6/core/libepubgen-0.1.1-2.mga6
- 6/core/libixion-0.14.1-1.mga6
- 6/core/libnumbertext-1.0.5-1.mga6
- 6/core/liborcus-0.14.1-1.mga6
- 6/core/libqxp-0.0.2-1.mga6
- 6/core/mdds-1.4.3-1.mga6
- 6/core/libreoffice-6.1.5.2-1.1.mga6