CVE-2006-4514 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-4514 at MITRE

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ole_info_read_metabat function in Gnome Structured File library (libgsf) 1.14.0, and other versions before 1.14.2, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large num_metabat value in an OLE document, which causes the ole_init_info function to allocate insufficient memory.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 225199 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2006:076, published Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 05:10:50 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:17:42 2023