CVE-2017-2896

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": [
        {
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "10.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "10.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux"
        }
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libxls/libxls

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/libxls/libxls

Events

Introduced

ab544df742cf50c730d1b6e46c66e44e3e42399f

Last affected

ab544df742cf50c730d1b6e46c66e44e3e42399f

Database specific

{
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.4"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.4"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libxls_project:libxls:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

1.*

1.4

v1.*

v1.4.0

Database specific

source

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