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CVE-2023-31979

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-05-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

Catdoc v0.95 was discovered to contain a global buffer overflow via the function process_file at /src/reader.c.

Affected products

• Fossies Catdoc: 0.95

References

• https://github.com/petewarden/catdoc/issues/9
• https://github.com/petewarden/catdoc/issues/9

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