Information Exposure Affecting libreoffice-langpack-fr package, versions <1:5.0.6.2-15.el7_4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
59.28% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBREOFFICELANGPACKFR-4817841
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed12 Feb 2018

Introduced: 12 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-6871  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 libreoffice-langpack-fr to version 1:5.0.6.2-15.el7_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2018:0418.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libreoffice-langpack-fr package and not the libreoffice-langpack-fr package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

LibreOffice before 5.4.5 and 6.x before 6.0.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via =WEBSERVICE calls in a document, which use the COM.MICROSOFT.WEBSERVICE function.