SoftMaker Office Vulnerabilities Allow Code Execution via Malicious Documents

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SoftMaker Office Vulnerabilities Allow Code Execution via Malicious Documents
January 6, 2021
https://www.securityweek.com/softma...ties-allow-code-execution-malicious-documents

A German software developer, SoftMaker Software GmbH offers individuals and enterprises a popular office software suite that includes word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database software components. The firm’s SoftMaker Office suite provides support for common and internal document file formats.

The recently discovered vulnerabilities impact TextMaker, a component of the SoftMaker Office suite designed to deliver a complete set of word-processing capabilities. According to Talos, each of the flaws can be exploited for arbitrary code execution in the context of the targeted application.
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The first of the issues, CVE-2020-13544, is a sign extension bug that affects the document-parsing functionality of TextMaker (SoftMaker Office 2021).
Tracked as CVE-2020-13545, the second vulnerability is a signed conversion flaw in the same document-parsing functionality of the application.

Assessed with a CVSS score of 8.8, all three vulnerabilities are now fixed.
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Cisco Talos: Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in SoftMaker Office TextMaker

Cisco Talos recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in SoftMaker's TextMaker software. A user could trigger these vulnerabilities by opening an attacker-created, malicious document. An adversary could use these documents to create a variety of malicious conditions on the victim machine.
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