7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2017-9433

Published: 05/06/2017 Updated: 04/11/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Document Liberation Project libmwaw prior to 2017-04-08 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the MsWrd1Parser::readFootnoteCorrespondance function in lib/MsWrd1Parser.cxx.

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Debian Bug report logs - #864366 CVE-2017-9433 Package: src:libmwaw; Maintainer for src:libmwaw is Debian LibreOffice Maintainers <debian-openoffice@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 16:15:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: fixed-upstream, security, upstream Found i ...
libmwaw could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file ...
It was discovered that a buffer overflow in libmwaw, a library to open old Mac text documents might result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed document is opened For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 031-2+deb8u1 For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 03 ...
Document Liberation Project libmwaw before 2017-04-08 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the MsWrd1Parser::readFootnoteCorrespondance function in lib/MsWrd1Parsercxx ...