9.3 - RHSA-2016:2579

Problem Description:

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 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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

3. 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 newer upstream version: libreoffice (5.0.6.2). (BZ#1290148)

Security Fix(es):

* Multiple flaws were found in the Lotus Word Pro (LWP) document format parser in LibreOffice. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted LWP document, an attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user opening the file. (CVE-2016-0794, CVE-2016-0795)

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

4. 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.

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1161240 - [fix available]Master Slide Elements of Footer, Number, and Date are not delectable easily 1168757 - [fix available] Selecting multiple slides is not reflected in Print dialog 1238413 - [abrt] [fix-available] libreoffice-core: SfxViewFrame::GetFrame() const(): soffice.bin killed by SIGSEGV 1255811 - [fix available] Calc: Random Number generator can't be edited and applied for cell location 1256843 - [fix available] In Start Center, if you open Templates, there is no "Close" or "X" in upper right corner of Templates dialog box. 1257635 - [fix available] sometimes LO doesn't see cups printers 1263949 - [fix available] Writer fails to open correct ODT file from WebDAV share 1290148 - rebase to libreoffice 5.0 in RHEL 7.3 1290152 - rebase libcmis to 0.5.0 1290153 - rebase mdds to 0.12.1 1306609 - CVE-2016-0794 CVE-2016-0795 libreoffice: Multiple out-of-bounds overflows in lwp filter 1330591 - [fix available] Not able to add RH Google Drive as a server