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CVE-2018-7439

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• 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: yes
• Published: 2018-02-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An issue was discovered in FreeXL before 1.0.5. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function read_mini_biff_next_record.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
• Freexl Project Freexl: before 1.0.5 — fixed in 1.0.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Freexl Project Freexl 1.0.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547892
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/spatialite-users/b-d9iB5TDPE
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00000.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-44
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4129
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547892
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/spatialite-users/b-d9iB5TDPE
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00000.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-44
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4129

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