Out-of-bounds Write Affecting libreoffice package, versions [,5.3.0.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.57% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBREOFFICE-2370784
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7870  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libreoffice to version 5.3.0.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. LibreOffice before 2017-01-02 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the tools::Polygon::Insert function in tools/source/generic/poly.cxx.

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