Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-4040 - Access of Uninitialized Pointer vulnerability in Atlantiswordprocessor Atlantis Word Processor 3.2.7.2

047910
CVSS 6.8 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL

Summary

An exploitable uninitialized pointer vulnerability exists in the rich text format parser of Atlantis Word Processor, version 3.2.7.2. A specially crafted document can cause certain RTF tokens to dereference a pointer that has been uninitialized and then write to it. An attacker must convince a victim to open a specially crafted document in order to trigger this vulnerability.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Atlantiswordprocessor
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Talos

idTALOS-2018-0713
last seen2019-05-29
published2018-11-20
reporterTalos Intelligence
sourcehttp://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0713
titleAtlantis Word Processor rich text format uninitialized TAutoList remote code execution vulnerability

The Hacker News

idTHN:256E89A426EB6F7EB8009CE059DA58AD
last seen2018-11-20
modified2018-11-20
published2018-11-20
reporterThe Hacker News
sourcehttps://thehackernews.com/2018/11/word-processor-vulnerability.html
title3 New Code Execution Flaws Discovered in Atlantis Word Processor