CVE-2023-38852

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-38852

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-38852.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-38852

Downstream

Published

2023-08-15T00:00:00Z

Modified

2026-10-20T10:58:41Z

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 unicode_decode_wcstombs function in xlstool.c:266.

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner":  "mitre",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/38xxx/CVE-2023-38852.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libxls/libxls

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/libxls/libxls

Events

Introduced

448240067919707eb95fb009f76f3fdb439b1427

Last Affected

448240067919707eb95fb009f76f3fdb439b1427

Database specific

Show details

{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:libxls_project:libxls:1.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "1.6.2"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "1.6.2"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

1.*

1.6.2

v1.*

v1.6.2

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-38852.json"