CVE-2013-6836

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-12-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ms_escher_get_data function in plugins/excel/ms-escher.c in GNOME Office Gnumeric before 1.12.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted xls file with a crafted length value.

Affected products

GNOME Gnumeric: through 1.12.8; 1.12.0, 1.12.1, 1.12.2, 1.12.3, 1.12.4, 1.12.5 (+2)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00018.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/56678
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64459
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712772
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnumeric/commit/?id=b5480b69345b3c6d56ee0ed9c9e9880bb2a08cdc
https://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/announcements/1.12/gnumeric-1.12.9.shtml
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00018.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/56678
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64459
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712772
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnumeric/commit/?id=b5480b69345b3c6d56ee0ed9c9e9880bb2a08cdc
https://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/announcements/1.12/gnumeric-1.12.9.shtml

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