Out-of-bounds Write Affecting libreoffice package, versions [,5.2.6.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.64% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBREOFFICE-2370794
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7856  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libreoffice to version 5.2.6.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. LibreOffice before 2017-03-11 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow in the SVMConverter::ImplConvertFromSVM1 function in vcl/source/gdi/svmconverter.cxx.

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