CVE-2012-2665

high

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the XML manifest encryption tag parsing functionality in OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice before 3.5.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Open Document Text (.odt) file with (1) a child tag within an incorrect parent tag, (2) duplicate tags, or (3) a Base64 ChecksumAttribute whose length is not evenly divisible by four.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826077

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1537-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1536-1

http://www.pre-cert.de/advisories/PRE-SA-2012-05.txt

http://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2012-2665/

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201408-19.xml

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2520

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-05.xml

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1135.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-08-06

Updated: 2023-02-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High