CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-2896
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-11-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/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-787
Description
An exploitable out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the xls_mergedCells function of libxls 1.4. . 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
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-64 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4173 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0403 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-64 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4173 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0403 Third Party Advisory