Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 23, 2021· Updated Aug 4, 2024
CVE-2020-27819
CVE-2020-27819
Description
An issue was discovered in libxls before and including 1.6.1 when reading Microsoft Excel files. A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists when parsing XLS cells in libxls/xls2csv.c:199. It could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via crafted XLS file.
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Affected products
3- libxls/libxlsdescription
Patches
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References
1- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitrex_refsource_MISC
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