CVE-2023-38852

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-38852
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-08-15 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-08-19 00:43:00 UTC
DescriptionBuffer Overflow vulnerability in libxlsv.1.6.2 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and cause a denial of service via a crafted XLS file to the unicode_decode_wcstombs function in xlstool.c:266.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libxls Project Libxls 1.6.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
There are multiple heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability found in libxls · Issue #124 · libxls/libxls · GitHub MISC github.com
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Legacy QID Mappings

  • 284938 Fedora Security Update for libxls (FEDORA-2024-8b67e47e43)
  • 284966 Fedora Security Update for libxls (FEDORA-2024-e74783429c)
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