CVE-2008-0668
Gnumeric Excel Read HLINK buffer overflow vulnerability
Description
The excel_read_HLINK function in plugins/excel/ms-excel-read.c in Gnome Office Gnumeric before 1.8.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted XLS file containing XLS HLINK opcodes, possibly because of an integer signedness error that leads to an integer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
INFO
Published Date :
Feb. 11, 2008, 9 p.m.
Last Modified :
Nov. 21, 2024, 12:42 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
10.0
Exploitability Score :
8.6
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208356 Added Reference http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505330 Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00001.html Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/28725/ Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/28799 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/28948 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/29702 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/29896 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/31339 Added Reference http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-05.xml Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1546 Added Reference http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.1.shtml Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:056 Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27536 Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-604-1 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0462 Added Reference https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00114.html Added Reference https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00227.html -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Feb. 12, 2008
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2008-0668 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2008-0668
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
16.21 }} -1.70%
score
0.95956
percentile