CVE-2017-2896

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 8.8 High

Status

Modified - talos-cna@cisco.com

Published

2017-11-20

Last modified

2024-09-16

Weaknesses

CWE-787

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Libxls (Libxls)
• Libxls (Libxls Project)

References

• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-64
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4173
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0403