High
Security advisory
An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the xls_preparseWorkSheet function of libxls 1.4 when handling a MULRK record. A specially crafted XLS file can cause a memory corruption resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can send malicious XLS file to trigger this vulnerability.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-12109
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:00 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the xls_preparseWorkSheet function of libxls 1.4 when handling a MULRK record. A specially crafted XLS file can cause a memory corruption resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can send malicious XLS file to trigger this vulnerability.
osv:CVE-2017-12109
Complete source record
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