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HIGH

buffer overflows

Published Mar 16, 2007

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in WordPerfect Document importer/exporter (libwpd) before 0.8.9 allow user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted WordPerfect file in which values to loop counters are not properly handled in the (1) WP3TablesGroup::_readContents and (2) WP5DefinitionGroup_DefineTablesSubGroup::WP5DefinitionGroup_DefineTablesSubGroup functions. NOTE: the integer overflow has been split into CVE-2007-1466.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Mar 16, 2007
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Dec 19, 2006
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Important
Public date Mar 16, 2007