CVE-2023-32401 (GCVE-0-2023-32401)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-10 22:03
Modified
2025-06-16 18:34
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Parsing an office document may lead to an unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution
Summary
A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.6.6, macOS Big Sur 11.7.7, macOS Ventura 13.4. Parsing an office document may lead to an unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution.
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