CVE-2006-4514: Libgsf

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ole_info_read_metabat function in Gnome Structured File library (libgsf) 1.14.0, and other versions before 1.14.2, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large num_metabat value in an OLE document, which causes the ole_init_info function to allocate insufficient memory.

Affected products

• Libgsf Libgsf: version 1.11.1 only; version 1.13.2 only; version 1.14 only; version 1.14.1 only

Published 2006-11-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.