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CVE-2017-2896

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-11-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An exploitable out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the xls_mergedCells function of libxls 1.4. . A specially crafted XLS file can cause a memory corruption resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can send malicious XLS file to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0
• libxls: 1.4

References

• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-64
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4173
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0403
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-64
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4173
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0403

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