CVE-2017-2896

high

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.

References

https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0403

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4173

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-64

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-11-20

Updated: 2022-06-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High