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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : libreoffice vulnerability (USN-2400-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79120

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

It was discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled OLE preview generation. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted document, an attacker could possibly exploit this to embed arbitrary data into documents.

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Solution

Update the affected libreoffice-core package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2400-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79120

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2400-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/11/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libreoffice-core

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/26/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3575

BID: 69354

USN: 2400-1