CVE-2017-9806 in OpenOffice

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 06/21/2017
• Disclosure: 11/20/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-787 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 6.5
• EPSS: 0.01349
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9806
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9806
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-9806/