CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-4291

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

CVE-2016-4291 affects Hancom Office 2014, where opening a Hangul HShow document (.hpt) can lead to an integer overflow. This results in improperly allocated memory that can cause data to be written outside the allocated buffer.

Risk Assessment

Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow remote code execution within the context of the application, posing a significant security risk to the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Hancom Office to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and implement appropriate security measures.

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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 use a field from the structure in an operation that can cause the integer to overflow. This result is then used to allocate memory to copy file data in. Due to the lack of bounds checking on the integer, the allocated memory buffer can be made to be undersized at which point the reading of file data will write outside the bounds of the buffer. This can lead to code execution under the context of the application.

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