CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-4290

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A vulnerability in Hancom Office 2014 allows for memory data overwriting, potentially leading to code execution. The issue occurs when opening Hangul HShow documents (.hpt) and is related to incorrect buffer length calculations.

Risk Assessment

Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute malicious code in the context of the application, posing a serious security threat to the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Hancom Office to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor systems for unauthorized activities.

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Original NVD description (English source)

When opening a Hangul HShow Document (.hpt) and processing a structure within the document, Hancom Office 2014 will attempt to allocate space for a block of data within the file. When calculating this length, the application will use a value from the file and add a constant to it without checking whether the addition of the constant will cause the integer to overflow which will cause the buffer to be undersized when the application tries to copy file data into it. This allows one to overwrite contiguous data in the heap which can lead to code-execution under the context of the application.

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