CVE-2017-9433

Publication date 4 June 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

Document Liberation Project libmwaw before 2017-04-08 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the MsWrd1Parser::readFootnoteCorrespondance function in lib/MsWrd1Parser.cxx.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libmwaw 17.04 zesty
Fixed 0.3.9-1ubuntu0.1
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 0.3.8-2ubuntu0.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.3.7-1ubuntu2.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.1.11-1ubuntu1.1

Patch details

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Package Patch details
libmwaw

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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