Buffer overflow from a crafted DBF file
37Vexday Risk Score
Prioritize patching. It exploitation observed by VulnCheck.
ssvc Actepss 51%
from disclosure to weapon
Published on NVDSep 23
VulnCheck+586d
exploitation probability
51%top 1% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
yesVulnCheck
Apache OpenOffice opens dBase/DBF documents and shows the contents as spreadsheets. DBF are database files with data organized in fields. When reading DBF data the size of certain fields is not checked: the data is just copied into local variables. A carefully crafted document could overflow the allocated space, leading to the execution of arbitrary code by altering the contents of the program stack. This issue affects Apache OpenOffice up to and including version 4.1.10
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache OpenOfficeReferences
https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commit/efddaef0151af3be16078cc4d88c6bae0f911e56#diff-ea66e734dd358922aba12ad4ba39c96bdc6cbde587d07dbc63d04daa0a30e90fhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1ab8532e11f41bc7ca057ac7e39cab25f2e1f9d5f4929788ae21c8b9%40%3Cusers.openoffice.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r929c0c6a53cad64a1007b878342756badbb05ddd9b8f31a6d0b424cb%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3Ehttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/10/07/3