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CVE-2017-7870

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

LibreOffice before 2017-01-02 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the tools::Polygon::Insert function in tools/source/generic/poly.cxx.

Affected products

• The Document Foundation LibreOffice: through 5.3.0.0

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3837
• http://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2017-7870/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97671
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039029
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1975
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=372
• https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/commit/62a97e6a561ce65e88d4c537a1b82c336f012722
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-28
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3837
• http://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2017-7870/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97671
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039029

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