CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-6836
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-12-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the ms_escher_get_data function in plugins/excel/ms-escher.c in GNOME Office Gnumeric before 1.12.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted xls file with a crafted length value.
Affected configurations
• gnome gnumeric (<= 1.12.8)
• gnome gnumeric 1.12.0
• gnome gnumeric 1.12.1
• gnome gnumeric 1.12.2
• gnome gnumeric 1.12.3
• gnome gnumeric 1.12.4
• gnome gnumeric 1.12.5
• gnome gnumeric 1.12.6
• gnome gnumeric 1.12.7
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00018.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56678 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64459 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712772 Exploit
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnumeric/commit/?id=b5480b69345b3c6d56ee0ed9c9e9880bb2a08cdc Exploit, Patch
- https://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/announcements/1.12/gnumeric-1.12.9.shtml Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00018.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56678 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64459 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712772 Exploit
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnumeric/commit/?id=b5480b69345b3c6d56ee0ed9c9e9880bb2a08cdc Exploit, Patch
- https://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/announcements/1.12/gnumeric-1.12.9.shtml Vendor Advisory