cve/2017/CVE-2017-2896.md

CVE-2017-2896

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.

POC

Reference

• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0403

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon