Libxls Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability

libxls is a C library that can read Excel xls files. An out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the xlsmergedCells function in libxls 1.4. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious XLS file to cause a memory corruption that could lead to remote code execution...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-2896

An exploitable out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the xlsmergedCells function of libxls 1.4. . A specially crafted XLS file can cause a memory corruption resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can send malicious XLS file to trigger this vulnerability...