CVE-2017-12109

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12109
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12109.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-12109
Downstream
Published
2018-04-24T19:29:01.500Z
Modified
2026-07-08T12:05:36.587607Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the xls_preparseWorkSheet function of libxls 1.4 when handling a MULRK record. 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.

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/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12109.json"