CVE-2007-0002

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-03-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Libwpd Library: through 0.8.8; 0.8.2, 0.8.6, 0.8.7

References

http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2805
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=490
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Mar/0007.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/24465
http://secunia.com/advisories/24507
http://secunia.com/advisories/24557
http://secunia.com/advisories/24572
http://secunia.com/advisories/24573
http://secunia.com/advisories/24580
http://secunia.com/advisories/24581
http://secunia.com/advisories/24588
http://secunia.com/advisories/24591

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