CVE-2020-27819

Summary

CVE	CVE-2020-27819
State	PUBLIC
Assigner	[email protected]
Source Priority	CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published	2021-02-23 04:15:00 UTC
Updated	2021-02-26 17:30:00 UTC
Description	An issue was discovered in libxls before and including 1.6.1 when reading Microsoft Excel files. A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists when parsing XLS cells in libxls/xls2csv.c:199. It could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via crafted XLS file.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

Type	Vendor	Product	Version	Update	Edition	Language
Application	Libxls Project	Libxls	All	All	All	All
Application	Libxls Project	Libxls	All	All	All	All

References

Reference	Source	Link	Tags
1903296 – (CVE-2020-27819) CVE-2020-27819 libxls: NULL pointer dereference via crafted xls file	MISC	bugzilla.redhat.com	Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record	CVE.ORG	www.cve.org	canonical
NVD vulnerability detail	NVD	nvd.nist.gov	canonical, analysis

No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.

Legacy QID Mappings

750185 OpenSUSE Security Update for libxls (openSUSE-SU-2021:0812-1)