Those who can’t update to the newest version can always disable the macro features in their office suite or avoid trusting any documents that contain macros.
Those using Linux who don’t have the versions mentioned above available on their distribution’s package manager yet are urged to download the “deb”, or “rpm” package from the Download center or build LibreOffice from source. Users will have to do the updates manually by downloading the newest version from the LibreOffice, OpenOffice download centers, as neither LibreOffice nor OpenOffice apps provide auto-updating. For LibreOffice – 7.0.5 or 7.1.1 and later.Those using at least one of the open-source office suites are recommended to update to the most recent version as quickly as possible. The same issue affects LibreOffice, a project fork of OpenOffice that originated from the main project over ten years ago and is recorded as CVE-2021-25635 for their project. Ruhr University Bochum’s cybersecurity researchers were the first to notice this vulnerability in OpenOffice, which has been tracked as CVE-2021-41832.
The digital signatures used in document macros are intended to assist the user in determining whether or not a document has been modified and can be trustworthy.Īllowing anyone to sign macro-ridden documents themselves, and make them appear as trustworthy, is an excellent way to trick users into running malicious code. LibreOffice and OpenOffice have released fixes to tackle an issue that allows hackers to make documents look as if they were signed by a trustworthy source.Įven though the vulnerability is not placed in the ‘High’ severity category being rated as moderate, the consequences could be disastrous.
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