CVE-2021-27836

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-27836
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-27836.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-27836
Downstream
Related
Published
2021-11-03T17:15:08.337Z
Modified
2026-03-14T10:53:03.673351Z
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

An issue was discoverered in in function xls_getWorkSheet in xls.c in libxls 1.6.2, allows attackers to cause a denial of service, via a crafted XLS file.

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
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.6.2-NA"
        }
    ]
}

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/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-27836.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "33"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "34"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "35"
            }
        ]
    }
]