CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-20450
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-12-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-415
Description
The read_MSAT function in ole.c in libxls 1.4.0 has a double free that allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-2897.
Affected configurations
• libxls project libxls 1.4.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-415 Double Free weakness
References
- https://github.com/evanmiller/libxls/issues/34 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-64 security.gentoo.org
- https://github.com/evanmiller/libxls/issues/34 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-64 security.gentoo.org