CVE-2008-0668 - The excel_read_HLINK function in plugins/excel/ms-excel-read.c in Gnome Office Gnumeric before 1.8.1

CVE-2008-0668

Summary

The excel_read_HLINK function in plugins/excel/ms-excel-read.c in Gnome Office Gnumeric before 1.8.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted XLS file containing XLS HLINK opcodes, possibly because of an integer signedness error that leads to an integer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

References

Vulnerable Configurations

cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnumeric:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnumeric:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS

Base:	9.3 (as of 08-03-2011 - 03:05)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

CWE-189

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
NETWORK	MEDIUM	NONE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
COMPLETE	COMPLETE	COMPLETE

cvss-vector via4

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

refmap via4

bid	27536
confirm	http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208356 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505330 http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.1.shtml
debian	DSA-1546
fedora	FEDORA-2008-1313 FEDORA-2008-1403
gentoo	GLSA-200802-05
mandriva	MDVSA-2008:056
secunia	28725 28799 28948 29702 29896 31339
suse	SUSE-SR:2008:016
ubuntu	USN-604-1
vupen	ADV-2008-0462

Last major update

08-03-2011 - 03:05

Published

11-02-2008 - 21:00

Last modified

08-03-2011 - 03:05