Bug 1649841 (CVE-2018-16858)
| Summary: | CVE-2018-16858 libreoffice: Arbitrary python functions in arbitrary modules on the filesystem can be executed without warning | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Pedro Sampaio <psampaio> |
| 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, huzaifas, msiddiqu, mthacker, sbergman, security-response-team |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | libreoffice 6.0.7, libreoffice 6.1.3 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
| Doc Text: |
It was found that libreoffice was vulnerable to a directory traversal attack which could be used to execute arbitrary macros bundled with a document. An attacker could craft a document, which when opened by LibreOffice, would execute a Python method from a script in any arbitrary file system location, specified relative to the LibreOffice install location.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2019-08-08 19:18:17 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1672002, 1672003, 1672004, 1743475 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1649844 | ||
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Description
Pedro Sampaio
2018-11-14 15:50:45 UTC
Acknowledgments: Name: The LibreOffice project Upstream: Alex Inführ In versions of libreoffice shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7, arbitrary arguements cannot be passed to the scripts/macros, hence meaningful exploitation is difficult. External References: https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2018-16858/ Created libreoffice tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1672002] This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2019:2130 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2130 This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16858 @Huzaifa ^^ |