Bug 1214308 (CVE-2023-38851)

Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2023-38851: libxls: buffer overflow via a crafted XLS file to the xls_parseWorkBook function in xls.c:1018
Product: [Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents Reporter: Alexander Bergmann <abergmann>
Component: IncidentsAssignee: Security Team bot <security-team>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: rfrohl, security-team
Version: unspecified   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/375448/
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Description Alexander Bergmann 2023-08-16 07:13:15 UTC 
CVE-2023-38851

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:1018.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2023-38851
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-38851
https://github.com/libxls/libxls/issues/124
Comment 1 Robert Frohl 2024-05-24 09:06:33 UTC 
nothing to do, closing