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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-20452: libxls: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-20452: libxls: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/25/2018
Created
04/01/2020
Added
03/31/2020
Modified
03/31/2020

Description

The read_MSAT_body function in ole.c in libxls 1.4.0 has an invalid free that allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, because of inconsistent memory management (new versus free) in ole2_read_header in ole.c.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-libs-libxls

References

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