CVE-2015-5214

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-11-04
CWE:
CWE-129
Bugzilla:
1278827: CVE-2015-5214 libreoffice: Bookmarks in DOC documents are insufficiently checked causing memory corruption
It was discovered that LibreOffice did not properly sanity check bookmark indexes. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user opening the file.

Find out more about CVE-2015-5214 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (libreoffice) RHSA-2015:2619 2015-12-14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (libreoffice) RHSA-2015:2619 2015-12-14

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 openoffice.org Will not fix

External References

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