# CVE-2021-33035: Buffer overflow from a crafted DBF file

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-09-23 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Apache Software Foundation Apache OpenOffice: through 4.1.10; from OpenOffice.org, through 3.4

## Description

Apache OpenOffice opens dBase/DBF documents and shows the contents as spreadsheets. DBF are database files with data organized in fields. When reading DBF data the size of certain fields is not checked: the data is just copied into local variables. A carefully crafted document could overflow the allocated space, leading to the execution of arbitrary code by altering the contents of the program stack. This issue affects Apache OpenOffice up to and including version 4.1.10

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commit/efddaef0151af3be16078cc4d88c6bae0f911e56#diff-ea66e734dd358922aba12ad4ba39c96bdc6cbde587d07dbc63d04daa0a30e90f
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r929c0c6a53cad64a1007b878342756badbb05ddd9b8f31a6d0b424cb%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1ab8532e11f41bc7ca057ac7e39cab25f2e1f9d5f4929788ae21c8b9%40%3Cusers.openoffice.apache.org%3E
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/10/07/3

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