Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in LibreOffice "LibreOfficeKit" mode disables TLS certification verification LibreOfficeKit can be used for accessing LibreOffice functionality through C/C++. Typically this is used by third party components to reuse LibreOffice as a library to convert, view or otherwise interact with documents. LibreOffice internally makes use of "curl" to fetch remote resources such as images hosted on webservers. In affected versions of LibreOffice, when used in LibreOfficeKit mode only, then curl's TLS certification verification was disabled (CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER of false) In the fixed versions curl operates in LibreOfficeKit mode the same as in standard mode with CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER of true. This issue affects LibreOffice before version 24.2.4.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3577-1 advisory.

    libreoffice was updated to version 24.8.1.2 (jsc#PED-10362):

    - Release notes:

      * https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/24.8.0/RC1 and
      * https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/24.8.0/RC2 and
      * https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/24.8.0/RC3

    - Security issues fixed:

      * CVE-2024-526: Fixed TLS certificates are not properly verified when utilizing LibreOfficeKit     (bsc#1226975)

    - Other bugs fixed:

      * Use system curl instead of the bundled one on systems greater than or equal to SLE15 (bsc#1229589)
      * Use the new clucene function, which makes index files reproducible (bsc#1047218)
      * Support firebird database with new package `libreoffice-base-drivers-firebird` in Package Hub and         openSUSE Leap (bsc#1225597)

    - Update bundled dependencies:

      * Java-Websocket updated from 1.5.4 to 1.5.6
      * boost updated from 1.82.0 to 1.85.0
      * curl updated from 8.7.1 to 8.9.1
      * fontconfig updated from 2.14.2 to 2.15.0
      * freetype updated from 2.13.0 to 2.13.2
      * harfbuzz updated from 8.2.2 to 8.5.0
      * icu4c-data updated from 73.2 to 74.2
      * icu4c-src updated from 73.2 to 74.2
      * libassuan updated from 2.5.7 to 3.0.1
      * libcmis updated from 0.6.1 to 0.6.2
      * libgpg-error updated from 1.48 to 1.50
      * pdfium updated from 6179 to 6425
      * poppler updated from 23.09.0 to 24.08.0
      * tiff updated from 4.6.0 to 4.6.0t

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLED_SAP12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3576-1 advisory.

    libreoffice was updated to version 24.8.1.2 (jsc#PED-10362):

    - Release notes:

      * https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/24.8.0/RC1 and
      * https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/24.8.0/RC2 and
      * https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/24.8.0/RC3

    - Security issues fixed:

      * CVE-2024-526: Fixed TLS certificates are not properly verified when utilizing LibreOfficeKit     (bsc#1226975)

    - Other bugs fixed:

      * Use system curl instead of the bundled one on systems greater than or equal to SLE15 (bsc#1229589)
      * Use the new clucene function, which makes index files reproducible (bsc#1047218)

    - Update bundled dependencies:

      * Java-Websocket updated from 1.5.4 to 1.5.6
      * boost updated from 1.82.0 to 1.85.0
      * curl updated from 8.7.1 to 8.9.1
      * fontconfig updated from 2.14.2 to 2.15.0
      * freetype updated from 2.13.0 to 2.13.2
      * harfbuzz updated from 8.2.2 to 8.5.0
      * icu4c-data updated from 73.2 to 74.2
      * icu4c-src updated from 73.2 to 74.2
      * libassuan updated from 2.5.7 to 3.0.1
      * libcmis updated from 0.6.1 to 0.6.2
      * libgpg-error updated from 1.48 to 1.50
      * pdfium updated from 6179 to 6425
      * poppler updated from 23.09.0 to 24.08.0
      * tiff updated from 4.6.0 to 4.6.0t

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 23.10 / 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6877-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly performed TLS certificate verification when the     LibreOfficeKit library is being used by third-party components. A remote attacker could possibly use this     issue to obtain sensitive information.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
208721	SUSE SLED15: libreoffice / libreoffice-base / libreoffice-base-drivers-firebird / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:3577-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
208716	SUSE SLED12: libreoffice / libreoffice-base / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:3576-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
201890	Ubuntu 23.10 / 24.04 LTS : LibreOffice vulnerability (USN-6877-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical

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