LibreOffice Can Be Abused for Malware Distribution Just like Microsoft Office

  • 29 June 2016
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LibreOffice patches Use After Free vulnerability

 
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Jun 29, 2016 15:04 GMT  ·  By Catalin Cimpanu CVE-2016-4324 - Use After Free vulnerability in LibreOffice 
These researchers have now taken LibreOffice in their sights. According to their latest advisory, the LibreOffice project has just patched a serious vulnerability that, in theory, makes the application attractive to hackers, who can use it to spread malware in the same way they abuse Microsoft Word.
 
Everybody has received by now at least one malicious Word document attached to spam email, which, when downloaded and executed, will install malware on their system through one Office exploit or another.
 
Cisco Talos researchers discovered CVE-2016-4324, which is a Use After Free security vulnerability in the way LibreOffice parses RTF files.
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Sounds a bit like a bugger's muddle to me...and that there is a need to clarifynthe position urgemtly so users of the software know where they are.

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