Title : wvWare Document Handling Multiple Client-Side Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4221 CVE ID : CVE-2006-4513
Rated as : High Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-10-27
Technical Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in wvWare, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. These flaws are due to integer overflow errors in the "wvGetLFO_records()" and "wvGetLFO_PLF()" functions when processing data read from a malformed Word document, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted document using an application linked against a vulnerable library.
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