CVE-2008-0668

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-02-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

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.

Affected products

GNOME Gnumeric: through 1.7.91

References

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

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