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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3608-1 libreoffice -- security update

Date Reported:

29 Jun 2016

Affected Packages:

libreoffice

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-4324.

More information:

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered that missing input sanitising in the RTF parser in Libreoffice may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed documented is opened.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1:4.3.3-2+deb8u5.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1:5.1.4~rc1-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:5.1.4~rc1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libreoffice packages.