HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-3282

Openoffice vulnerability

CVSS
7.8
EPSS
10.8%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Integer overflow in the rtl_allocateMemory function in sal/rtl/source/alloc_global.c in the memory allocator in OpenOffice.org (OOo) 2.4.1, on 64-bit platforms, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted document, related to a "numeric truncation error," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2152.
Affected vendor
Apache
Affected product
Openoffice
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-681 — Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types
Published
2008-08-29

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 10.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-3282

  • Confirm whether Apache Openoffice is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-3282.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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