[SECURITY] [DSA 4173-1] r-cran-readxl security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4173-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff April 16, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

CVE-2017-2919

An exploitable stack based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the xlsgetfcell function of libxls 1.3.4. 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...

CVE-2017-2919

The CVE-2017-2919 issue concerns the libxls library (v1.3.4) where the function xls_getfcell has a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability. A crafted XLS file can cause memory corruption, enabling remote code execution . Public references consistently tie this to the libxls code path used when ...