USN-6023-1: LibreOffice vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM

Packages

• libreoffice - Office productivity suite

Details

It was discovered that LibreOffice may be configured to add an
empty entry to the Java class path. This may lead to run arbitrary
Java code from the current directory.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04

• libreoffice - 1:6.4.7-0ubuntu0.20.04.7

Ubuntu 18.04

• libreoffice - 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.13

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2022-38745