Out-of-Bounds Affecting libxls/libxls package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBXLSLIBXLS-2369615
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-20452  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for libxls/libxls.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The read_MSAT_body function in ole.c in libxls 1.4.0 has an invalid free that allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, because of inconsistent memory management (new versus free) in ole2_read_header in ole.c.

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