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CVE-2012-5639

Publication date 20 December 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

LibreOffice and OpenOffice automatically open embedded content

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libreoffice 14.10 utopic
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
13.10 saucy Ignored
13.04 raring Ignored
12.10 quantal Ignored
12.04 LTS precise Ignored
11.10 oneiric Ignored
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release
8.04 LTS hardy Not in release
openoffice.org 14.10 utopic Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
13.10 saucy Not in release
13.04 raring Not in release
12.10 quantal Not in release
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
11.10 oneiric
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored

Notes

jdstrand

seems more like a feature request. LibreOffice prompts the user saying that the document contains links to external data and asks if the user wants to refresh them. The prompt does not say what the files are. The external content is fetched the first time without prompting.

mdeslaur

See http://whatofhow.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/stealth-mode/ for improvement that went into 4.2. We will not be fixing this in precise, marking as ignored

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N