High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 31, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-3983
CVE-2018-3983
Description
An exploitable uninitialized pointer vulnerability exists in the Word document parser of the the Atlantis Word Processor. A specially crafted document can cause an array fetch to return an uninitialized pointer and then performs some arithmetic before writing a value to the result. Usage of this uninitialized pointer can allow an attacker to corrupt heap memory resulting in code execution under the context of the application. An attacker must convince a victim to open a document in order to trigger this vulnerability.
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Affected products
2- Atlantis Word Processor/Atlantis Word Processordescription
Patches
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References
1- talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0651nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
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