CVE-2024-5261 Affecting libreoffice-l10n-sid package, versions <24.8.1.2-150500.20.11.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-LIBREOFFICEL10NSID-8181137
  • published11 Oct 2024
  • disclosed10 Oct 2024

Introduced: 10 Oct 2024

CVE-2024-5261  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 libreoffice-l10n-sid to version 24.8.1.2-150500.20.11.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libreoffice-l10n-sid package and not the libreoffice-l10n-sid package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.

Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in LibreOffice "LibreOfficeKit" mode disables TLS certification verification

LibreOfficeKit can be used for accessing LibreOffice functionality through C/C++. Typically this is used by third party components to reuse LibreOffice as a library to convert, view or otherwise interact with documents.

LibreOffice internally makes use of "curl" to fetch remote resources such as images hosted on webservers.

In affected versions of LibreOffice, when used in LibreOfficeKit mode only, then curl's TLS certification verification was disabled (CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER of false)

In the fixed versions curl operates in LibreOfficeKit mode the same as in standard mode with CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER of true.

This issue affects LibreOffice before version 24.2.4.

CVSS Scores

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