CVE-2018-20452

Published December 25th, 2018

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CVSS v3

N/A

CVSS v2

6.8

MEDIUM

Affected

PROJECT

Description

The read_MSAT_body function in ole.c in libxls 1.4.0 has an invalid free that allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, because of inconsistent memory management (new versus free) in ole2_read_header in ole.c.

libxls/libxls

Read binary Excel files from C/C++

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