Title : Fedora Security Update Fixes Gnumeric Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0462 CVE ID : CVE-2008-0668
Rated as : High Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2008-02-08
Technical Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. These issues are caused by integer overflow and signedness errors in Gnumeric when processing XLS, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or compromise a vulnerable system.
