A vulnerability in the OpenOffice Writer DOC file parser before 4.1.4, and specifically in the WW8Fonts Constructor, allows attackers to cr…

published 2017-11-20 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-18721

cvss: 7.8; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.8%; EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits: 0; none known

A vulnerability in the OpenOffice Writer DOC file parser before 4.1.4, and specifically in the WW8Fonts Constructor, allows attackers to craft malicious documents that cause denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 1

apache openoffice 4.1.4

libreoffice Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:3.4.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9806

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-9806 updated 2026-11-04 cvss 7.0

libreoffice: Out-of-bounds write in the WW8Fonts::WW8Fonts functionality

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 autocorr-af, autocorr-bg, autocorr-ca, autocorr-cs, autocorr-da, autocorr-de, +60 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 autocorr-af, autocorr-bg, autocorr-ca, autocorr-cs, autocorr-da, autocorr-de, +105 more
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	6.8	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache OpenOffice

Classification

Weakness

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

openoffice.org /security/cves/CVE-2017-9806.html
vendor-advisory
securityfocus.com /bid/101585
vdb-entry, broken-link, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-9806
NVD CVE-2017-9806

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Summary