CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-0668
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-02-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
The excel_read_HLINK function in plugins/excel/ms-excel-read.c in Gnome Office Gnumeric before 1.8.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted XLS file containing XLS HLINK opcodes, possibly because of an integer signedness error that leads to an integer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Affected configurations
• gnome gnumeric (<= 1.7.91)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208356 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505330 bugzilla.gnome.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00001.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28725/ Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28799 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28948 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29702 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29896 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31339 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-05.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1546 www.debian.org
- http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.1.shtml Patch
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:056 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27536 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-604-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0462 www.vupen.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00114.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00227.html www.redhat.com
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208356 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505330 bugzilla.gnome.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00001.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28725/ Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28799 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28948 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29702 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29896 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31339 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-05.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1546 www.debian.org
- http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.1.shtml Patch
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:056 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27536 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-604-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0462 www.vupen.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00114.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00227.html www.redhat.com