Bug 2554037

Summary:	CVE-2026-111127 catdoc: catdoc: Denial of Service via crafted Excel file [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Vladimir Vasilev <vvasilev>
Component:	catdoc	Assignee:	Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Vladimir Vasilev 2026-10-16 12:07:48 UTC

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catdoc through 0.95 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in copy_unicode_string() in src/xlsparse.c that allows attackers to read past buffers via an unchecked string character count. Attackers can supply a crafted .xls file declaring 0xFFFF two-byte characters in LABEL, STRING, or SST records to disclose adjacent memory through xls2csv output or crash the process.