CVE-2014-0247 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2014-0247?

CVE-2014-0247 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 3 Jul 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

LibreOffice 4.2.4 executes unspecified VBA macros automatically, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors, possibly related to doc/docmacromode.cxx.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-0247?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Libreoffice Libreoffice, Opensuse Opensuse, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2014-0247?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2014-0247 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-0247 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0247, GHSA-42hf-67vj-j9w8, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0247, USN-2253-1.