CVE-2016-4296 is a heap corruption vulnerability affecting Hancom Office 2014 when processing specially crafted Hangul Hcell Documents (.cell). This flaw occurs due to an out-of-bounds write of a null terminator when an underscore character is at the end of a string within a CSSValFormat object. Rated 7.8 HIGH, this vulnerability requires user interaction (e.g., opening a malicious file) and can lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the affected application. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 9.1.0.2176CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hancom:hancom_office_2014:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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