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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-20320 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T16:25:42.389Z

Reserved: 2020-10-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-27819

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-02-23T04:15:13.883

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:21:52.320

Link: CVE-2020-27819

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