CVE-2023-38856

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-38856
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-38856.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-38856
Downstream
Published
2023-08-15T17:15:11.270Z
Modified
2025-11-15T06:44:20.853686Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Buffer 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 get_string function in xlstool.c:411.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/evanmiller/libxls

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/evanmiller/libxls
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
448240067919707eb95fb009f76f3fdb439b1427

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
v1.5.0
v1.5.0-rc0
v1.5.0-rc1
v1.5.0-rc2
v1.5.0-rc3
v1.5.0-rc4
v1.5.1
v1.5.1-rc0
v1.5.1-rc1
v1.5.2
v1.5.2-rc0
v1.5.3
v1.5.3-rc0
v1.6.0
v1.6.0-rc0
v1.6.1
v1.6.2
v1.6.2-rc0

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-38856.json"