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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2026-76181 EUVD-2026-117767GHSA-44mf-p26f-h973

Heap buffer overflow in dBASE index import

Published Nov 5, 2026 · Updated Nov 5, 2026 · Assigned by Document Fdn.

Description

LibreOffice includes a dBASE database driver, which reads dBASE tables and their .ndx index files when a folder of dBASE files is used as a data source. A heap buffer overflow existed when an index page was read. The number of entries recorded in a page was not checked against the number of entries the page could hold, which comes from a different field of the index header. A crafted index could also make a page refer back to itself, so that reading it recursed without end. In fixed versions the index header and the entry count of each page are limited to what an index page can hold, and a page that refers back to one of its parent pages is not followed.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
The Document Foundation LibreOffice 26.2 – < < 26.2.6, 26.8 – < < 26.8.1 < 26.2.6

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 libreoffice 4:26.8.1.1-2 —
Debian 13 libreoffice 4:25.2.3-2+deb13u9 —
Debian 12 libreoffice No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 libreoffice No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS libreoffice No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS libreoffice No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS libreoffice No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS libreoffice No fix yet —

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