Description
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.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2017-9806.html
Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101585
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0182
EPSS Percentile
83.1%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-787
Status
published
Products (2)
apache/openoffice
< 4.1.4
Apache Software Foundation/Apache OpenOffice
4.0.0 to 4.1.3, and some previous releases, including some using our old OpenOffice.org brand
Published
Nov 20, 2017
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026