CVE-2016-0794
The lwp filter in LibreOffice before 5.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted LotusWordPro (lwp) document.
02 Description
The lwp filter in LibreOffice before 5.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted LotusWordPro (lwp) document.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.81% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 86.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2016-02-18 21:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 22:30Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-12-16
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- e9106f92fb481210d045613b9a6023b97c6da1ca5619813bb4e0614645171491
05 Affected products
06 References
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:1415http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00110.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:1805http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00050.html
- www.verisign.com20160217 Multiple Vendor LibreOffice Writer Lotus Word Pro Bullet Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilityhttps://www.verisign.com/en_US/security-services/security-intelligence/vulnerability-reports/articles/index.xhtml?id=1222
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-962c0d156dhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178036.html
- www.verisign.com20160217 Multiple Vendor LibreOffice Writer Lotus Word Pro 'ReadRootData' Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilityhttps://www.verisign.com/en_US/security-services/security-intelligence/vulnerability-reports/articles/index.xhtml?id=1220
- www.securitytracker.com1035022http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035022
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:2579http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2579.html
- www.libreoffice.orghttps://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2016-0794/
- www.verisign.com20160217 Multiple Vendor LibreOffice Writer Lotus Word Pro TabRack Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilityhttps://www.verisign.com/en_US/security-services/security-intelligence/vulnerability-reports/articles/index.xhtml?id=1221
- www.debian.orgDSA-3482http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3482
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2899-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2899-1
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- libreoffice Fixed in 1:5.0.5~rc1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- libreoffice Fixed in 1:5.0.5~rc1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- libreoffice Fixed in 1:5.0.5~rc1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- libreoffice Fixed in 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu4
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.