Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package r-cran-readxl  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-RCRANREADXL-1085864
  • published16 Mar 2021
  • disclosed2 Dec 2020

Introduced: 2 Dec 2020

CVE-2017-2910  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream r-cran-readxl package and not the r-cran-readxl package as distributed by Debian.

An exploitable Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability exists in the xls_addCell function of libxls 2.0. 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.