Bug 1216042 (CVE-2015-1774)

Summary:	CVE-2015-1774 libreoffice: HWP file filter vulnerability
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	caolanm, dtardon, erack, jgrulich, mstahl, sbergman
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	LibreOffice 4.3.7, LibreOffice 4.4.2, OpenOffice 4.1.2	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the way the LibreOffice HWP (Hangul Word Processor) file filter processed certain HWP documents. An attacker able to trick a user into opening a specially crafted HWP document could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user opening that document.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2015-11-27 09:12:52 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1216044, 1217464, 1217466
Bug Blocks:	1216045

Description Martin Prpič 2015-04-28 12:03:52 UTC

A flaw was found in the way LibreOffice processed certain HWP documents. An attacker able to trick a user into opening a specially crafted HWP document could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the system with the privileges of the user opening that document.

External References:

http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2015-1774.html
http://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2015-1774

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-04-28 12:04:19 UTC

Created libreoffice tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1216044]

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-04-29 13:04:59 UTC

libreoffice-4.3.7.2-3.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2015-05-10 23:44:31 UTC

libreoffice-4.2.8.2-8.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-22 06:19:19 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:1458 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1458.html