Vulnerability in GNOME Gnumeric
CVE-2008-0668
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.050 (91.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 91.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.050 · newest: 0.050 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- GNOME Gnumeric
- Red Hat Fedora — versions 7, 8
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0462 (vdb-entry)
- www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.1.shtml (Patch)
- secunia.com/advisories/28948 (third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00114.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-604-1 (vendor-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1546 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/27536 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/29896 (third-party-advisory)