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CVE-2018-17043

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-09-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An issue has been found in doc2txt through 2014-03-19. It is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function Storage::init in Storage.cpp, called from parse_doc in parse_doc.cpp.

Affected products

• Doc2Txt Project Doc2Txt: through 2014-03-19

References

• https://github.com/grandnew/software-vulnerabilities/tree/master/doc2txt#heap-buffer-overflow-in-function-storageinit
• https://github.com/tsfn/doc2txt/issues/1
• https://github.com/grandnew/software-vulnerabilities/tree/master/doc2txt#heap-buffer-overflow-in-function-storageinit
• https://github.com/tsfn/doc2txt/issues/1

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