Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting libreoffice-langpack-af package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBREOFFICELANGPACKAF-1374241
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed18 Apr 2017

Introduced: 18 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-8358  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 libreoffice-langpack-af.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libreoffice-langpack-af package and not the libreoffice-langpack-af package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

LibreOffice before 2017-03-17 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the ReadJPEG function in vcl/source/filter/jpeg/jpegc.cxx.