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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-0668 Detail

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.


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

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-189 Numeric Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-0668
NVD Published Date:
02/11/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE