Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-2896

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - 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 corrupti...

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...