CVE-2008-0668
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 5.0% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-0678)
- Published
- February 11, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-0678 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gnome / gnumeric
- redhat / fedora
- redhat / fedora
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208356
- http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505330
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28725/(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28799(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28948
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29702
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29896
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31339
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-05.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1546
- http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.1.shtml(Patch)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:056
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27536
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-604-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0462
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00114.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00227.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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