CVE-2017-5644: Possible Denial of Service

March 24, 2017 (updated October 2, 2019)

This package allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a specially crafted OOXML file, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

References

poi.apache.org/
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5644

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