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Debian: CVE-2017-12110: r-cran-readxl -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 20, 2017
Added
Apr 19, 2018
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the xls_appendSST function of libxls 1.4.A specially crafted XLS file can cause memory corruption resulting in remote code execution.

Solution

debian-upgrade-r-cran-readxl
Title
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