Oracle Linux 8 : libreoffice (ELSA-2020-1598)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2020-1598 advisory. - Resolves: rhbz1743958 CVE-2019-9849, etc. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory. Not...

SUSE CVE-2019-9852

LibreOffice has a feature where documents can specify that pre-installed macros can be executed on various script events such as mouse-over, document-open etc. Access is intended to be restricted to scripts under the share/Scripts/python, user/Scripts/python sub-directories of the LibreOffice...

Emotet Now Using Unconventional IP Address Formats to Evade Detection

Social engineering campaigns involving the deployment of the Emotet malware botnet have been observed using "unconventional" IP address formats for the first time in a bid to sidestep detection by security solutions. This involves the use of hexadecimal and octal representations of the IP address...

libreoffice: Insufficient URL decoding flaw in categorizing macro location

LibreOffice documents can contain macros. The execution of those macros is controlled by the document security settings, typically execution of macros are blocked by default. A URL decoding flaw existed in how the urls to the macros within the document were processed and categorized, resulting in...

Ubuntu Update for openoffice.org vulnerability USN-949-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-949-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN9491.nasl 7965 2017-12-01 07:38:25Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for openoffice.org vulnerability USN-949-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS : openoffice.org vulnerability (USN-949-1)

Marc Schoenefeld discovered that OpenOffice.org would run document macros from the macro browser, even when macros were disabled. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted document and examining a macro, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Note that...