CVE-2015-5213

23

FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-5213 describes an integer overflow vulnerability in LibreOffice (before 4.4.5) and Apache OpenOffice (before 4.1.2) that can be triggered by a specially crafted, long DOC file. This flaw can lead to memory corruption, application crashes (denial of service), or potentially arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability has a medium attack complexity and can be exploited remotely without authentication, impacting confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While it has a high FAUCET Risk Score, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		12.04CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04::::lts:::
		14.04CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04::::lts:::
		15.04CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04:::::::*
		7.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:::::::*
		8.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

6.4

CvssVersion

2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

12.87%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

95.9%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1287 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (9)

asteriskpatch availablevia llm_extracted

Fixed in: 4.4.5/5.0.0

check_pointpatch availablevia llm_extracted

Fixed in: 4.4.5/5.0.0

denopatch availablevia llm_extracted

Fixed in: 4.1.2

libreofficepatch availablevia llm_extracted

Fixed in: 4.1.2

nessuspatch availablevia llm_extracted

Fixed in: 4.1.2

postgresqlpatch availablevia llm_extracted

Fixed in: 4.1.2

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libreoffice-1:4.3.7.2-5.el7_2.1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libreoffice-1:4.2.8.2-11.el6_7.1

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: openoffice.org

Vendor Advisories (7)

redhatCVE-2015-5213Moderate

libreoffice: Integer overflow in DOC files

asteriskllm-asterisk-09c24b76213db1b2

DOC piecetable Integer Overflow

check_pointllm-check_point-3f69d546ea542d47

DOC piecetable Integer Overflow

denollm-deno-dbb6f6b542223359

.DOC Document Vulnerability

postgresqlllm-postgresql-022d21027480c90f

.DOC Document Vulnerability

libreofficellm-libreoffice-6eba09997a31551f

.DOC Document Vulnerability

nessusllm-nessus-5b643595ff541eb2

.DOC Document Vulnerability

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-2619.html

security.gentoo.org / glsa/201603-05

security.gentoo.org / glsa/201611-03

debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3394

libreoffice.org / about-us/security/advisories/cve-2015-5213

Vendor Advisory

openoffice.org / security/cves/CVE-2015-5213.html

Vendor Advisory

oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

securityfocus.com / bid/77486

securitytracker.com / id/1034085

securitytracker.com / id/1034091

ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2793-1