Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 11, 2008· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2008-0668
CVE-2008-0668
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.
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Affected products
3cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnumeric:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnumeric:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=1.7.91
- (no CPE)range: <1.8.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
18- secunia.com/advisories/28799nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.1.shtmlnvdPatch
- secunia.com/advisories/28725/nvdVendor Advisory
- bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cginvd
- bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cginvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00001.htmlnvd
- secunia.com/advisories/28948nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/29702nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/29896nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/31339nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-05.xmlnvd
- www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1546nvd
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisoriesnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/27536nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-604-1nvd
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0462nvd
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00114.htmlnvd
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00227.htmlnvd
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