CVE-2023-38853

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-38853
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-38853.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-38853
Downstream
Published
2023-08-15T17:15:10.897Z
Modified
2026-03-14T12:12:35.601705Z
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 xls_parseWorkBook function in xls.c:1015.

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"
        }
    ]
}

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-2023-38853.json"