{"id":"CVE-2017-2896","details":"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.","modified":"2026-07-07T08:49:34.129689672Z","published":"2017-11-20T22:29:00.293Z","database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"vendor_product":"debian:debian_linux","cpes":["cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"10.0"},{"last_affected":"10.0"}],"source":"CPE_STRING"}]},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-64"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4173"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0403"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/libxls/libxls","events":[{"introduced":"ab544df742cf50c730d1b6e46c66e44e3e42399f"},{"last_affected":"ab544df742cf50c730d1b6e46c66e44e3e42399f"}],"database_specific":{"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"1.4"},{"last_affected":"1.4"}],"source":"CPE_STRING","cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:libxls_project:libxls:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"}}],"versions":["1.4","v1.4.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-2896.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}