| Name | CVE-2018-16858 |
| Description | It was found that libreoffice before versions 6.0.7 and 6.1.3 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1669-1, DSA-4381-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| libreoffice (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1:4.3.3-2+deb8u15 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u11 | fixed | |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1:6.1.5-3~deb9u2 | fixed | |
| buster | 1:6.1.5-3+deb10u7 | fixed | |
| buster (security) | 1:6.1.5-3+deb10u11 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u8 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security) | 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u9 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 4:7.4.7-1+deb12u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 4:7.4.7-1+deb12u2 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 4:24.2.3-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| libreoffice | source | wheezy | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| libreoffice | source | jessie | 1:4.3.3-2+deb8u12 | DLA-1669-1 | ||
| libreoffice | source | stretch | 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u5 | DSA-4381-1 | ||
| libreoffice | source | (unstable) | 1:6.1.3-1 |
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