CVE-2017-2919

high

Published 2017-11-20 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

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

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Mixed 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.0.0-2`
sid	Fixed	`1.0.0-2`
forky	Fixed	`1.0.0-2`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.0.0-2`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.0.0-2`
9.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
libxls_project	libxls	`1.3.4`

References

CWEs

CWE-787

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