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CVE-2008-0668

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.3 Published: 2008-02-11 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Gnome GnumericRedhat Fedora

Weakness Type

CWE-189

References