CVE-2023-38852

Published: Aug 15, 2023Modified: Nov 4, 2025

6.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in libxlsv.1.6.2 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and cause a denial of service via a crafted XLS file to the unicode_decode_wcstombs function in xlstool.c:266.

Affected (1)

Products: Libxls Project: Libxls

Libxls Project

1 product

Libxls

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Libxls Project Libxls	Version 1.6.2

Related CWEs

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

References (8)

https://github.com/libxls/libxls/issues/124

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitIssue Tracking

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQYGEBDBCOWBRHOW44BSSRADUOZBXHUE/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YHBUPYF2NX34HNAWZ3WYHKWU3KWVQUSV/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://github.com/libxls/libxls/issues/124