UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20450
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Summary:
Details: The read_MSAT function in ole.c in libxls 1.4.0 has a double free that allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-2897.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20450, https://github.com/evanmiller/libxls/issues/34, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20450
Affected packages
Package
Name: r-cran-readxl
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/r-cran-readxl?arch=source&distro=xenial
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -None
Affected versions
0.1.0-1
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
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