SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : LibreOffice (SUSE-SU-2019:1894-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 126813

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for libreoffice and libraries fixes the following issues :

LibreOffice was updated to 6.2.5.2 (fate#327121 bsc#1128845 bsc#1123455), bringing lots of bug and stability fixes.

Additional bugfixes :

If there is no firebird engine we still need java to run hsqldb (bsc#1135189)

PPTX: Rectangle turns from green to blue and loses transparency when transparency is set (bsc#1135228)

Slide deck compression doesn't, hmm, compress too much (bsc#1127760)

Psychedelic graphics in LibreOffice (but not PowerPoint) (bsc#1124869)

Image from PPTX shown in a square, not a circle (bsc#1121874)

libixion was updated to 0.14.1: Updated for new orcus

liborcus was updated to 0.14.1: Boost 1.67 support

Various cell handling issues fixed

libwps was updated to 0.4.10: QuattroPro: add parser of .qwp files

all: support complex encoding

mdds was updated to 1.4.3: Api change to 1.4

More multivector operations and tweaks

Various multi vector fixes

flat_segment_tree: add segment iterator and functions

fix to handle out-of-range insertions on flat_segment_tree

Another api version -> rename to mdds-1_2

myspell-dictionaries was updated to 20190423: Serbian dictionary updated

Update af_ZA hunspell

Update Spanish dictionary

Update Slovenian dictionary

Update Breton dictionary

Update Galician dictionary

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-WE-15-SP1-2019-1894=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-WE-15-2019-1894=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Open Buildservice Development Tools 15-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-OBS-15-SP1-2019-1894=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Open Buildservice Development Tools 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-OBS-15-2019-1894=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP1-2019-1894=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2019-1894=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 126813

File Name: suse_SU-2019-1894-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/19/2019

Updated: 5/9/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16858

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libixion-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwps-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:myspell-lightproof-pt_br, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-libixion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libixion-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:myspell-dictionaries, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:liborcus-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-liborcus, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-libixion-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:liborcus-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-liborcus-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libixion-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libixion-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libixion-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwps-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:myspell-lightproof-en, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwps-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:liborcus-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:myspell-lightproof-ru_ru, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwps-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:liborcus-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:myspell-lightproof-hu_hu

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2019

Exploitable With

Metasploit (LibreOffice Macro Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16858

Detections

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