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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-7436: FreeXL: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-7436: FreeXL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/23/2018
Created
07/28/2020
Added
07/28/2020
Modified
07/28/2020

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-libs-freexl

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