CVE-2010-4253: Apache Openoffice

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 10.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in Impress in OpenOffice.org (OOo) 2.x and 3.x before 3.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PNG file in an ODF or Microsoft Office document, as demonstrated by a PowerPoint (aka PPT) document.

Affected products

• Apache Openoffice: from 2.0.0, before 3.3.0 (fixed in 3.3.0)
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 8.04 only; version 9.10 only; version 10.04 only; version 10.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2011-01-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.