CVE-2018-20450

medium

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.

References

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

https://github.com/evanmiller/libxls/issues/34

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-12-25

Updated: 2020-03-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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