CVE-2017-12607

Publication date 1 November 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A vulnerability in OpenOffice's PPT file parser before 4.1.4, and specifically in PPTStyleSheet, allows attackers to craft malicious documents that cause denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libreoffice	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu5.2

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libreoffice	Upstream: ?id=334

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3472-1
LibreOffice vulnerabilities
2 November 2017