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CVE-2012-2665 Detail

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the XML manifest encryption tag parsing functionality in OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice before 3.5.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Open Document Text (.odt) file with (1) a child tag within an incorrect parent tag, (2) duplicate tags, or (3) a Base64 ChecksumAttribute whose length is not evenly divisible by four.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1135.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/50142 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/50146 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/50692 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/60799 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-05.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2520 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201408-19.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2012-2665/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.pre-cert.de/advisories/PRE-SA-2012-05.txt CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54769 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027331 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027332 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1536-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1537-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826077 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2012-2665
NVD Published Date:
08/06/2012
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.