The excel_read_HLINK function in plugins/excel/ms-excel-read.c in Gnome Office Gnumeric before 1.8.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers…

Description

The excel_read_HLINK function in plugins/excel/ms-excel-read.c in Gnome Office Gnumeric before 1.8.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted XLS file containing XLS HLINK opcodes, possibly because of an integer signedness error that leads to an integer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

5.0% · top 7.8% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-189 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-189 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (18)

• ADV-2008-0462 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.1.shtml (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 28948 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• FEDORA-2008-1313 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• USN-604-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• MDVSA-2008:056 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• SUSE-SR:2008:016 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• DSA-1546 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 27536 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 29896 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 29702 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505330 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 28799 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• FEDORA-2008-1403 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• GLSA-200802-05 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• 28725 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208356 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 31339 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2008-0668](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2008-0668.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2008-0668)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 07:54 UTC.