libxls Denial of Service Vulnerability

libxls is a C library for reading Exce xls files. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the 'readMSATbody' function of the ole.c file in libxls version 1.4.0, which can be exploited by an attacker to cause a denial of service application crash with the help of a specially crafted file...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20452

The readMSATbody function in ole.c in libxls 1.4.0 has an invalid free that allows attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, because of inconsistent memory management new versus free in ole2readheader in ole.c...