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CVE-2020-27819

An issue was discovered in libxls before and including 1.6.1 when reading Microsoft Excel files.

Impact

An issue was discovered in libxls before and including 1.6.1 when reading Microsoft Excel files. A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists when parsing XLS cells in libxls/xls2csv.c:199. It could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via crafted XLS file.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
Libxls ProjectLibxls
before 1.6.2

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