Detections
Analytics
CVE-2018-4040
high
Description
An exploitable uninitialized pointer vulnerability exists in the rich text format parser of Atlantis Word Processor, version 3.2.7.2. A specially crafted document can cause certain RTF tokens to dereference a pointer that has been uninitialized and then write to it. An attacker must convince a victim to open a specially crafted document in order to trigger this vulnerability.
References
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0713