CVE-2017-9432 — Document Liberation Project libstaroffice before 2017-04-07 has an out-of-bounds

Document Liberation Project libstaroffice before 2017-04-07 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a stack-based buffer overflow related to the DatabaseName::read function in lib/StarWriterStruct.cxx.

01What is this vulnerability?

Document Liberation Project libstaroffice before 2017-04-07 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a stack-based buffer overflow related to the DatabaseName::read function in lib/StarWriterStruct.cxx.

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2017-06-05T03:29:00.243
• Last modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

09References

• bugs.chromium.org — https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=1029
• github.com — https://github.com/fosnola/libstaroffice/commit/2d6253c7a692a3d92785dd990fce7256…
• bugs.chromium.org — https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=1029
• github.com — https://github.com/fosnola/libstaroffice/commit/2d6253c7a692a3d92785dd990fce7256…