CVE-2013-6836

Upstream information

CVE-2013-6836 at MITRE

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ms_escher_get_data function in plugins/excel/ms-escher.c in GNOME Office Gnumeric before 1.12.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted xls file with a crafted length value.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently not rated by SUSE as it is not affecting the SUSE Enterprise products.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 856254 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• openSUSE-SU-2014:0138-1, published Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:04:45 +0100 (CET)
• openSUSE-SU-2014:0201-1, published Thu, 6 Feb 2014 18:04:12 +0100 (CET)

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Dec 19 08:15:19 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 7 12:46:38 2022