CVE-2017-12109: An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the xls_preparseWorkSheet function of libxls 1.4 when handling a MULRK record. A specially crafted XLS…

PriorityP344high8.8CVSS 3.0

AVNACLPRNUIRSUCHIHAH

EPSS

2.77%

84.9th percentile

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.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	r-cran-readxl	< r-cran-readxl 1.0.0-2 (bookworm)	r-cran-readxl 1.0.0-2 (bookworm)
libxls	libxls	—	—
libxls_project	libxls	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.08.8HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.06.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv8.8HIGH

vendor_debian8.8HIGH

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