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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-0668

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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-604-1 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA28725 Secunia Advisory: SA28799 Secunia Advisory: SA28948 Secunia Advisory: SA29702 Secunia Advisory: SA29896 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:056 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-05.xml FEDORA DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1546 CONFIRM http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.1.shtml http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208356 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505330 BID 27536

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