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CVE-2018-20452

PoC —
CVSS 3.0
8.8 high
EPSS
2%p73
Published
()
Modified
Description

The read_MSAT_body 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 ole2_read_header in ole.c.

Vendors
libxls project
Products
libxls
Weakness
CWE-119
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.5%)

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