CVE-2012-0037

Publication date 22 March 2012

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

Redland Raptor (aka libraptor) before 2.0.7, as used by OpenOffice 3.3 and 3.4 Beta, LibreOffice before 3.4.6 and 3.5.x before 3.5.1, and other products, allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted XML external entity (XXE) declaration and reference in an RDF document.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libreoffice 13.04 raring
Not affected
12.10 quantal
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
11.10 oneiric
Not affected
11.04 natty
Not affected
10.10 maverick Not in release
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release
8.04 LTS hardy Not in release
openoffice.org 13.04 raring Not in release
12.10 quantal Not in release
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
11.10 oneiric
Not affected
11.04 natty
Not affected
10.10 maverick Ignored end of life
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life
raptor 13.04 raring
Not affected
12.10 quantal
Fixed 1.4.21-7ubuntu1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 1.4.21-7ubuntu0.1
11.10 oneiric
Fixed 1.4.21-5ubuntu0.1
11.04 natty
Fixed 1.4.21-2ubuntu0.1
10.10 maverick Ignored end of life
10.04 LTS lucid
Fixed 1.4.21-1ubuntu1.1
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life
raptor2 13.04 raring
Not affected
12.10 quantal
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 2.0.6-1ubuntu0.1
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release

Notes

jdstrand

Per Sweetchark, only a LibreOffice issue if using internal raptor Debian's patch for 1.4.21 from David Beckett based on patch sent to linux-distros@ per RedHat, arbitrary code execution is possible as well 1.4.21-7 is claimed to be fixed in Debian. While a patch was added, the quilt series file was not updated so the patch was not applied.

Patch details

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Package Patch details
openoffice.org
raptor
raptor2

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

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