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CVE-2015-5213

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-11-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in LibreOffice before 4.4.5 and Apache OpenOffice before 4.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long DOC file, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation Apache OpenOffice: through 4.1.1
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.04
• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
• The Document Foundation LibreOffice: through 4.4.4

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2619.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3394
• http://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2015-5213/
• http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2015-5213.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77486
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034085
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034091
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2793-1
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-05
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-03
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2619.html

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