CVE-2017-9432
Document Liberation Project libstaroffice before 2017-04-07 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a stack-based buffer overflow related to the DatabaseName::read function in lib/StarWriterStruct.cxx.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.81%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Document Liberation Project libstaroffice before 2017-04-07 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a stack-based buffer overflow related to the DatabaseName::read function in lib/StarWriterStruct.cxx.
- CVSS 3.0
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.81% probability · 79th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- Affected
- libstaroffice project/libstaroffice
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.8% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=1029Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/fosnola/libstaroffice/commit/2d6253c7a692a3d92785dd990fce7256ea05e794Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=1029Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/fosnola/libstaroffice/commit/2d6253c7a692a3d92785dd990fce7256ea05e794Patch, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.