High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 6, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-4291
CVE-2016-4291
Description
When opening a Hangul HShow Document (.hpt) and processing a structure within the document, Hancom Office 2014 will use a field from the structure in an operation that can cause the integer to overflow. This result is then used to allocate memory to copy file data in. Due to the lack of bounds checking on the integer, the allocated memory buffer can be made to be undersized at which point the reading of file data will write outside the bounds of the buffer. This can lead to code execution under the context of the application.
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Affected products
3cpe:2.3:a:hancom:hancom_office_2014:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:hancom:hancom_office_2014:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=9.1.0.2176
- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: 2014 VP Trial HShow.exe Product version: 9.1.0.2176 HncBM90.dll Product version: 9.1.0.2291
Patches
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References
2- www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0146/nvdExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/92325nvd
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