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Red Hat: CVE-2018-7437: freexl: heap-buffer-overflow in parse_SST in freexl.c

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 23, 2018
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in FreeXL before 1.0.5. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in a memcpy call of the parse_SST function.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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