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CVE-2008-0668

CVE information

Published

15 years ago

Last Modified

12 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

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Description

The excel_read_HLINK function in plugins/excel/ms-excel-read.c in Gnome Office Gnumeric before 1.8.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted XLS file containing XLS HLINK opcodes, possibly because of an integer signedness error that leads to an integer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
9.3/10
Exploit Score
8.6/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
10/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
Complete

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  No
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  No
-
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnumeric:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
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