PT-2018-13857 · Doc2Txt · Doc2Txt

Published 2018-09-14 · Updated 2020-08-24 · CVE-2018-17043

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions doc2txt versions prior to 2014-03-19

Description The issue is a heap-based buffer overflow in the Storage::init function, located in Storage.cpp, which is called from parse doc in parse doc.cpp.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2014-03-19, as a temporary workaround, consider disabling the Storage::init function until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-17043

Affected Products

Doc2Txt

References · 4

• 🔥 https://github.com/tsfn/doc2txt/issues/1 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/grandnew/software-vulnerabilities/tree/master/doc2txt#heap-buffer-overflow-in-function-storageinit · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17043 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-17043 · Vendor Advisory