CVE-2008-0668

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-0668
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-02-11 21:00:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe excel_read_HLINK function in plugins/excel/ms-excel-read.c in Gnome Office Gnumeric before 1.8.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted XLS file containing XLS HLINK opcodes, possibly because of an integer signedness error that leads to an integer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 9.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-189 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnome Gnumeric All All All All
Operating System Redhat Fedora 7 All All All
Operating System Redhat Fedora 8 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Gnumeric XLS HLINK Opcode Handling Remote Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Fedora update for gnumeric - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1546-1 gnumeric af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2008:056 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Gentoo update for gnumeric - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: gnumeric-1.6.3-14.fc8 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Gentoo Bug 208356 - app-office/gnumeric < 1.8.1 excel_read_HLINK XLS opcodes code excution (CVE-2008-0668) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org
Gnumeric XLS HLINK Opcode Processing Code Execution Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: gnumeric-1.6.3-14.fc7 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Gnumeric: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code — Gentoo Linux Documentation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
GNOME Office / Gnumeric - Gnumeric 1.8.1 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gnome.org Patch
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2008:016 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Ubuntu update for gnumeric - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Bug 505330 – Gnumeric crashes on opening Excel 97 file af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.gnome.org
Debian update for gnumeric - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
USN-604-1: Gnumeric vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
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