CVE-2017-8358

Publication date 30 April 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

LibreOffice before 2017-03-17 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the ReadJPEG function in vcl/source/filter/jpeg/jpegc.cxx.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libreoffice	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
openoffice.org	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.10 yakkety	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

fix from 2017-03-17 fixes issue introduced on 2017-03-15 https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/commit/ceb53ad9f34ae05d09f61845d581546eac0c6d60

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libreoffice	Upstream: 6e6e54f

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H