CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-38851

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2023-08-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-08-15
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
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in libxlsv.1.6.2 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and cause a denial of service via a crafted XLS file to the xls_parseWorkBook function in xls.c:1018.

Affected configurations

• libxls project libxls 1.6.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References