Upstream information

CVE-2017-2923 at MITRE

Description

An exploitable heap based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the 'read_biff_next_record function' of FreeXL 1.0.3. 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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	8.8
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1058431 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2017:2537-1 openSUSE-SU-2017:2539-1

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 12	`freexl-devel >= 1.0.4-5.1` `libfreexl1 >= 1.0.4-5.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2017-1082
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`freexl-devel >= 1.0.6-1.3` `libfreexl1 >= 1.0.6-1.3`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10771

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Sep 12 14:45:17 2017
CVE page last modified: Sat Jun 15 23:18:42 2024