CVE-2008-0668

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    CVE-2008-0668

    Published: 11 Feb 2008Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

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

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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