CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-4292

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A vulnerability in Hancom Office 2014 allows for exploitation of a memory allocation error when processing a Hangul HShow document (.hpt). An attacker can trigger memory corruption outside the allocated buffer, potentially leading to code execution.

Risk Assessment

The risk to the organization involves the potential for malicious code execution within the application context, which could result in data loss or system compromise.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Hancom Office to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and to restrict opening unknown HShow documents.

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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 static size to allocate a heap buffer yet explicitly trust a size from the file when modifying data inside of it. Due to this, an aggressor can corrupt memory outside the bounds of this buffer which can lead to code execution under the context of the application.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS