CVE-2015-5214

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

LibreOffice before 4.4.6 and 5.x before 5.0.1 and Apache OpenOffice before 4.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or execute arbitrary code via an index to a non-existent bookmark in a DOC file.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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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~rc2-1`
sid	Fixed	`1:5.0.1~rc2-1`
forky	Fixed	`1:5.0.1~rc2-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1:5.0.1~rc2-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1:5.0.1~rc2-1`
8.0	Affected	—
7.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
libreoffice	libreoffice	`{"endIncluding":"4.4.5"}`
apache	openoffice	`{"endIncluding":"4.1.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.