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CVE-2014-9527

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-01-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

HSLFSlideShow in Apache POI before 3.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and deadlock) via a crafted PPT file.

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation Apache POI: through 3.11
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 20

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150228.html
• http://poi.apache.org/changes.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/61953
• http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21996759
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77726
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1135
• https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57272
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150228.html
• http://poi.apache.org/changes.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/61953
• http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21996759
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77726

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