CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-12109

8.8 HIGH Published 2018-04-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-04-24
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-190

Description

An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the xls_preparseWorkSheet function of libxls 1.4 when handling a MULRK record. A specially crafted XLS file can cause a memory corruption resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can send malicious XLS file to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected configurations

• libxls project libxls 1.4

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness

References