CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-9806

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-11-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-11-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

A vulnerability in the OpenOffice Writer DOC file parser before 4.1.4, and specifically in the WW8Fonts Constructor, allows attackers to craft malicious documents that cause denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution.

Affected configurations

• apache openoffice (< 4.1.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References