Vulnerability CVE-2008-0668
Published: 2008-02-11   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-189

 (Numeric Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
9.3/10
10/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Gnome -> Gnumeric 

 References:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.1.shtml
http://secunia.com/advisories/28799
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00227.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00114.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0462
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27536
http://secunia.com/advisories/31339
http://secunia.com/advisories/28725/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00001.html
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505330
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-604-1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:056
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1546
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-05.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/29896
http://secunia.com/advisories/29702
http://secunia.com/advisories/28948
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208356
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