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CVSSv2

CVE-2017-2923

Published: 24/04/2018 Updated: 13/06/2022
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

An exploitable heap based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the 'read_biff_next_record function' of FreeXL 1.0.3. 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.

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Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: freexl: CVE-2017-2924: Heap-based buffer overflow in the read_legacy_biff function
Debian Bug report logs - #875691 freexl: CVE-2017-2924: Heap-based buffer overflow in the read_legacy_biff function Package: src:freexl; Maintainer for src:freexl is Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 17:09:01 UTC ...
Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: freexl: CVE-2017-2923: Heap-based buffer overflow in the read_biff_next_record function
Debian Bug report logs - #875690 freexl: CVE-2017-2923: Heap-based buffer overflow in the read_biff_next_record function Package: src:freexl; Maintainer for src:freexl is Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 17:06:01 ...
Debian Security Advisories: DSA-3976-1 freexl -- security update
Marcin Icewall Noga of Cisco Talos discovered two vulnerabilities in freexl, a library to read Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, which might result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed Excel file is opened For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 100g-1+deb8u4 For the stabl ...

References

CWE-787https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0430https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3976http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100807https://nvd.nist.govhttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=875691https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-3976
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