CVE-2014-9274

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-12-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

UnRTF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code as demonstrated by a file containing the string "{\cb-999999999".

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 21
Mageia Project Mageia: 4
Unrtf Project Unrtf: through 0.21.6

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0533.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147399.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62811
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3158
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:007
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/04/15
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71430
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170233
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-unrtf/2014-11/msg00001.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-06
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0533.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147399.html

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