Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting libreoffice package, versions [,3.6.0.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.16% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBREOFFICE-2370804
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Nov 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Nov 2012

CVE-2012-4233  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libreoffice to version 3.6.0.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). LibreOffice 3.5.x before 3.5.7.2 and 3.6.x before 3.6.1, and OpenOffice.org (OOo), allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted (1) odt file to vcllo.dll, (2) ODG (Drawing document) file to svxcorelo.dll, (3) PolyPolygon record in a .wmf (Window Meta File) file embedded in a ppt (PowerPoint) file to tllo.dll, or (4) xls (Excel) file to scfiltlo.dll.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1