vulnerability

Apache OpenOffice: CVE-2021-40439: "Billion Laughs" fixed in Expat >=2.4.0

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 7, 2021
Added
Sep 12, 2025
Modified
Sep 12, 2025

Description

Apache OpenOffice has a dependency on expat software. Versions prior to 2.1.0 were subject to CVE-2013-0340 a "Billion Laughs" entity expansion denial of service attack and exploit via crafted XML files. ODF files consist of a set of XML files. All versions of Apache OpenOffice up to 4.1.10 are subject to this issue. expat in version 4.1.11 is patched.

Solution

apache-openoffice-upgrade-latest
Title
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