CVE-2017-7856

9.8 CRITICAL

Published: April 14, 2017 Modified: May 13, 2026

Description

LibreOffice before 2017-03-11 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow in the SVMConverter::ImplConvertFromSVM1 function in vcl/source/gdi/svmconverter.cxx.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2017-7856/

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97667

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=817

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/commit/28e61b634353110445e334ccaa415d7fb6629d62

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Third Party Advisory

http://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2017-7856/

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97667

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=817

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/commit/28e61b634353110445e334ccaa415d7fb6629d62

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Patch Third Party Advisory

8 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score

9.8 / 10.0

EPSS (Exploit Probability)

3.5%

88th percentile

Exploitation Status

Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-787

Affected Vendors

libreoffice

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