CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-116124

MediumCVSS 6.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.43%

37th percentile - higher than 37% of all known CVEs

Summary

A security vulnerability has been detected in GNOME libgsf up to 1.14.60. The impacted element is the function ole_info_read_metabat of the file gsf/gsf-infile-msole.c of the OLE2 Parser component. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow, and the attack can be initiated remotely.

Risk Assessment

A remote attacker could exploit the heap-based buffer overflow to execute arbitrary code or crash applications processing malicious OLE2 files. Organizations using libgsf for document processing are exposed to remote attacks.

Recommendation

It is recommended to apply the patch identified as a8e25560b74f84c3f86df6ca0ac59195fa5af68a to fix this issue.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

A security vulnerability has been detected in GNOME libgsf up to 1.14.60. The impacted element is the function ole_info_read_metabat of the file gsf/gsf-infile-msole.c of the component OLE2 Parser. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack can be initiated remotely. The identifier of the patch is a8e25560b74f84c3f86df6ca0ac59195fa5af68a. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS