CVE-2018-20450 - Double Free

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

The read_MSAT function in ole.c in libxls 1.4.0 has a double free that allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-2897.

The read_MSAT function in ole.c in libxls 1.4.0 has a double free that allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-2897.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Demo Examples

Double Free

CWE-415

Double Free

CWE-415

While contrived, this code should be exploitable on Linux distributions which do not ship with heap-chunk check summing turned on.


               
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free(buf1R2);

Overview

First reported 6 years ago

2018-12-25 17:29:00

Last updated 4 years ago

2020-03-30 17:15:00

Affected Software

Libxls Project Libxls 1.4.0

1.4.0

References

https://github.com/evanmiller/libxls/issues/34

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

GLSA-202003-64

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