7.5High
CVE-2026-91752
GNU libextractor before 1.15 contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the process_star_office function that sizes a variable-length stack array from attacker-controlled OLE2 stream data. Attackers can craft malicious StarOffice documents that allocate up to 4 MB on the stack, causing stack overflow and crashing any application extracting metadata from the document.
What this means for your business
- An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, without a login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.4% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 32% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 7.5 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- CVSS v4
- 8.7
- Weakness
- CWE-789
- Assigned by
- disclosure@vulncheck.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-09-15
- Last modified
- 2026-09-17
- Sources
- NVD
References
- https://git.gnunet.org/gnunet/libextractor/commit/04004eb19033e093938138b09befdf31e71e8522.html
- https://git.gnunet.org/gnunet/libextractor/commit/2781c7e9095f4ddaff4f535d69342f3903b18422.html
- https://github.com/Haitam-lazaar/libextractor-ole2-rce
- https://www.gnu.org/software/libextractor/
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/gnu-libextractor-before-1.15-stack-overflow-via-ole2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/09/16/16