CVE-2015-5212

medium

Published 2015-11-10 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.8

Description

Integer underflow in LibreOffice before 4.4.5 and Apache OpenOffice before 4.1.2, when the configuration setting "Load printer settings with the document" is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted PrinterSetup data in an ODF document.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Ubuntu Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
15.04	Affected	—
14.04	Affected	—
12.04	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 7 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1:5.0.1~rc1-1`
sid	Fixed	`1:5.0.1~rc1-1`
forky	Fixed	`1:5.0.1~rc1-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1:5.0.1~rc1-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1:5.0.1~rc1-1`
8.0	Affected	—
7.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
libreoffice	libreoffice	`{"endIncluding":"4.4.4"}`
apache	openoffice	`{"endIncluding":"4.1.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-191

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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