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CVE-2020-27819

Published: Feb 23, 2021

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

An issue was discovered in libxls before and including 1.6.1 when reading Microsoft Excel files. A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists when parsing XLS cells in libxls/xls2csv.c:199. It could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via crafted XLS file.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

libxls

affected
libxls before 1.6.2

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-476

References

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