Bug 431226 (CVE-2008-0668)

Summary: CVE-2008-0668 gnumeric: integer overflow and signedness errors in XLS processing
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-02-01 16:13:37 UTC
Secunia has published an advisory regarding flaws in gnumerinc's XLS parser:

  http://secunia.com/advisories/28725/

Quoting the advisory:
  The vulnerability is caused due to integer overflows and signedness errors
  when processing XLS HLINK opcodes within the "excel_read_HLINK()" function
  in plugins/excel/ms-excel-read.c. This can be exploited to corrupt the stack
  via a specially crafted XLS file.

  Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

  The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.6.3. Versions prior to 1.8.1 may
  also be affected.

Described issue should be fixed in upstream version 1.8.1.

References:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505330
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.1.shtml

Patch as committed to upstream SVN:
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnumeric/trunk/plugins/excel/ms-excel-read.c?r1=16237&r2=16280

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-02-04 16:09:25 UTC
gnumeric-1.6.3-14.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-02-04 16:09:55 UTC
gnumeric-1.6.3-14.fc7 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 7

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-02-07 20:54:40 UTC
gnumeric-1.6.3-14.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-02-07 21:01:25 UTC
gnumeric-1.6.3-14.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.