CVE-2024-12425

Publication date 7 January 2025

Last updated 14 January 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in The Document Foundation LibreOffice allows Absolute Path Traversal. An attacker can write to arbitrary locations, albeit suffixed with ".ttf", by supplying a file in a format that supports embedded font files. This issue affects LibreOffice: from 24.8 before < 24.8.4.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libreoffice 24.10 oracular
Needs evaluation
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation

Notes

mdeslaur

likely affects earlier releases than 24.8, contrary to description

Patch details

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Package Patch details
libreoffice