26 Sep 2023

Important release of LibreOffice 7.6.2 Community and LibreOffice 7.5.7 Community with key security fix

Posted in Announcements, LibreOffice, Press Releases By Italo Vignoli On September 26, 2023

A drawing of a generic "bug" with four colours on its back: red, green, blue, yellow. Berlin, 26 September 2023 – The Document Foundation is releasing LibreOffice 7.6.2 Community and LibreOffice 7.5.7 Community ahead of schedule to address a security issue known as CVE 2023-4863, which originates in a widely used code library known as libwebp, created by Google more than a decade ago to render the then-new WebP graphics format [1].

In addition to the CVE, the two new versions fix other bugs and regressions and are available immediately from www.libreoffice.org/download [2]. All users of LibreOffice are encouraged to update their current version as soon as possible.

The minimum requirements for proprietary operating systems are Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 and Apple MacOS 10.15.

For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners – for desktop, mobile and cloud – with a wide range of dedicated value-added features and other benefits such as SLAs: www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/.

The Document Foundation does not provide technical support to users, although it is available from volunteers on user mailing lists and the Ask LibreOffice website: ask.libreoffice.org.

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can support the Document Foundation by making a donation at www.libreoffice.org/donate.

[1] Details of CVE 2023-4863: nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4863. Bugzilla: bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157231.

[2] Change logs for LibreOffice 7.6.2 Community: wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.6.2/RC1 and LibreOffice 7.5.7 Community: wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.5.7/RC1.