CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-27836
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-11-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/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-476
Description
An issue was discoverered in in function xls_getWorkSheet in xls.c in libxls 1.6.2, allows attackers to cause a denial of service, via a crafted XLS file.
Affected configurations
• libxls project libxls 1.6.2
• fedoraproject fedora 33
• fedoraproject fedora 34
• fedoraproject fedora 35
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://github.com/libxls/libxls/issues/94 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5D7XXCVFYRRMI4ENXYSD3MZEBS6SMI7E/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SFOE4Z6T46LA47VXWUVET4ELXRZQ3BWB/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y6XOTFEOCHYKZAFCB6H3KNIIFJ3UFV7V/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://github.com/libxls/libxls/issues/94 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5D7XXCVFYRRMI4ENXYSD3MZEBS6SMI7E/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SFOE4Z6T46LA47VXWUVET4ELXRZQ3BWB/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y6XOTFEOCHYKZAFCB6H3KNIIFJ3UFV7V/ lists.fedoraproject.org