CVE-2017-11110: Fossies Catdoc

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ole_init function in ole.c in catdoc 0.95 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer underflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, i.e., data is written to memory addresses before the beginning of the tmpBuf buffer.

Affected products

• Fossies Catdoc: version 0.95 only

Published 2017-07-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.