CVE-2008-0668 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208356 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505330 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00001.html 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.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.1.shtml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:056 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27536 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-604-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0462 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00114.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00227.html