Bug 2236662 (CVE-2023-38854)

Summary: CVE-2023-38854 libxls: heap buffer overflow in xls_parseWorkBook() in xls.c
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Description TEJ RATHI 2023-09-01 06:50:28 UTC
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in libxlsv.1.6.2 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and cause a denial of service via a crafted XLS file to the transcode_latin1_to_utf8 function in xlstool.c:296.

https://github.com/libxls/libxls/issues/124

Comment 1 TEJ RATHI 2023-09-01 06:51:27 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2232479 ***