GNU libextractor before 1.15 contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the process_star_office function that sizes a variable-length stack array from attacker-controlled OLE2 stream data. Attackers can craft malicious StarOffice documents that allocate up to 4 MB on the stack, causing stack overflow and crashing any application extracting metadata from the document.
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| Description | GNU libextractor before 1.15 contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the process_star_office function that sizes a variable-length stack array from attacker-controlled OLE2 stream data. Attackers can craft malicious StarOffice documents that allocate up to 4 MB on the stack, causing stack overflow and crashing any application extracting metadata from the document. | |
| Title | GNU libextractor before 1.15 Stack Overflow via OLE2 | |
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Gnu
Gnu libextractor |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-789 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:libextractor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Gnu
Gnu libextractor |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-15T00:35:43.518Z
Reserved: 2026-09-14T23:08:43.492Z
Link: CVE-2026-91752
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-15T01:16:54.967
Modified: 2026-09-15T01:16:54.967
Link: CVE-2026-91752
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Updated: 2026-09-15T09:30:08Z
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