CVE-2012-4233

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-11-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

LibreOffice 3.5.x before 3.5.7.2 and 3.6.x before 3.6.1, and OpenOffice.org (OOo), allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted (1) odt file to vcllo.dll, (2) ODG (Drawing document) file to svxcorelo.dll, (3) PolyPolygon record in a .wmf (Window Meta File) file embedded in a ppt (PowerPoint) file to tllo.dll, or (4) xls (Excel) file to scfiltlo.dll.

Affected products

The Document Foundation LibreOffice: through 3.6; 3.5, 3.5.-rc1, 3.5.0, 3.5.0-rc1, 3.5.0-rc2, 3.5.0-rc3 (+19)
Sun Openoffice.Org: all versions

References

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/binfilter/commit/?h=libreoffice-3-5-7&id=7e22ee55ffc9743692f3ddb93e59dd4427029c5b
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-3-5-7&id=44bc6b5cac723b52df40fbef026e99b7119d8a69
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-3-5-7&id=6789ec4c1a9c6af84bd62e650a03226a46365d97
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-3-5-7&id=8ca9fb05c9967f11670d045886438ddfa3ac02a7
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00039.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00075.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2570
http://www.libreoffice.org/advisories/cve-2012-4233/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/02/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56352
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79728
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79730

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