vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-2919): r-cran-readxl vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 20, 2017
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Jul 28, 2025

Description

An exploitable stack based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the xls_getfcell function of libxls 1.3.4. 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

Solution

no-fix-ubuntu-package
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