CVE-2016-4295 describes a heap overflow vulnerability in Hancom Office 2014, specifically when opening a crafted Hangul Hcell Document (.cell) that contains a malformed Workbook stream. This flaw, occurring due to an index miscalculation during chart formula processing, can lead to out-of-bounds writes and potential arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (HIGH), it requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and local access (AV:L), potentially impacting confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| 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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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.