CVE-2015-5214: Apache Openoffice

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 9.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

LibreOffice before 4.4.6 and 5.x before 5.0.1 and Apache OpenOffice before 4.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or execute arbitrary code via an index to a non-existent bookmark in a DOC file.

Affected products

  • Apache Openoffice: up to and including 4.1.1
  • Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.04 only
  • Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
  • Libreoffice Libreoffice: up to and including 4.4.5

Published 2015-11-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.