Vigil@nce - FreeXL: two vulnerabilities
November 2017 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can use several vulnerabilities of FreeXL.
Impacted products: Debian, Fedora, openSUSE Leap, SUSE Linux
Enterprise Desktop, SLES.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 18/09/2017.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
Several vulnerabilities were announced in FreeXL.
An attacker can generate a buffer overflow via
read_biff_next_record(), in order to trigger a denial of service,
and possibly to run code. [severity:2/4; CVE-2017-2923]
An attacker can generate a buffer overflow via read_legacy_biff(),
in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to run code.
[severity:2/4; CVE-2017-2924]
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https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/FreeXL-two-vulnerabilities-23848