CVE-2017-9433

9.8 CRITICAL

Published: June 05, 2017 Modified: May 13, 2026

Description

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/MsWrd1Parser.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.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3875

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=1037

Source: cve@mitre.org

Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

https://sourceforge.net/p/libmwaw/libmwaw/ci/68b3b74569881248bfb6cbb4266177cc253b292f/

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Third Party Advisory

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3875

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

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=1037

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

Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

https://sourceforge.net/p/libmwaw/libmwaw/ci/68b3b74569881248bfb6cbb4266177cc253b292f/

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

Patch Third Party Advisory

6 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score

9.8 / 10.0

EPSS (Exploit Probability)

2.3%

81th percentile

Exploitation Status

Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-119

Affected Vendors

libmwaw_project

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