Security Advisory

CVE-2018-20452

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-12-25 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 11:58:19
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The read_MSAT_body function in ole.c in libxls 1.4.0 has an invalid free that allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, because of inconsistent memory management (new versus free) in ole2_read_header in ole.c.