CVE-2012-4233

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Description

The CVE Program describes this issue as:

LibreOffice 3.5.x before 3.5.7.2 and 3.6.x before 3.6.1, and OpenOffice.org (OOo), allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted (1) odt file to vcllo.dll, (2) ODG (Drawing document) file to svxcorelo.dll, (3) PolyPolygon record in a .wmf (Window Meta File) file embedded in a ppt (PowerPoint) file to tllo.dll, or (4) xls (Excel) file to scfiltlo.dll.

Statement

Red Hat Security Response Team does not consider a user assisted denial of service (and potential crash) of end user application, such as tools from LibreOffice productivity suite, to be a security issue.

Red Hat Security Response Team does not consider a user assisted denial of service (and potential crash) of end user application, such as tools from LibreOffice productivity suite, to be a security issue.

Additional information

  • Bugzilla 872350: libreoffice: multiple null pointer dereference flaws
  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference
  • FAQ: Frequently asked questions about CVE-2012-4233

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

Important note

CVSS scores for open source components depend on vendor-specific factors (e.g. version or build chain). Therefore, Red Hat's score and impact rating can be different from NVD and other vendors. Red Hat remains the authoritative CVE Naming Authority (CNA) source for its products and services (see Red Hat classifications).

The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 Score Breakdown
Red HatNVD

CVSS v2 Base Score

2.6

4.3

Attack Vector

Network

Network

Access Complexity

High

Medium

Authentication

None

None

Confidentiality Impact

None

None

Integrity Impact

None

None

Availability Impact

Partial

Partial

CVSS v2 Vector

Red Hat: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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