CVE-2012-2334

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 13.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-06-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in filter/source/msfilter/msdffimp.cxx in OpenOffice.org (OOo) 3.3, 3.4 Beta, and possibly earlier, and LibreOffice before 3.5.3, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via the length of an Escher graphics record in a PowerPoint (.ppt) document, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Affected products

Apache Openoffice.Org: 3.3, 3.4-beta
The Document Foundation LibreOffice: through 3.5.2; 3.3.0, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.3.4, 3.4.0 (+4)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-05/0091.html
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=28a6558f9d3ca2dda3191f8b5b3f2378ee2533da
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=512401decb286ba0fc3031939b8f7de8649c502e
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082168.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0705.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/46992
http://secunia.com/advisories/47244
http://secunia.com/advisories/49373
http://secunia.com/advisories/49392
http://secunia.com/advisories/60799
http://securitytracker.com/id?1027070
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2487

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