CVE-2017-2896

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2896
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-2896.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-2896
Downstream
Published
2017-11-20T22:29:00.293Z
Modified
2026-04-11T12:05:47.411814Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An exploitable out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the xls_mergedCells function of libxls 1.4. . 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.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "10.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libxls/libxls

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libxls/libxls
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
ab544df742cf50c730d1b6e46c66e44e3e42399f
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libxls_project:libxls:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.4"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.2.0
v0.3.0
v1.*
v1.0.0
v1.1.0
v1.2.0
v1.2.1
v1.3.0
v1.3.1
v1.3.2
v1.3.3
v1.3.4
v1.4.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-2896.json"