Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Gnumeric: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Informations
Name GLSA-200802-05 First vendor Publication 2008-02-12
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2008-02-12
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Several integer overflow vulnerabilities have been reported in Gnumeric, possibly resulting in user-assisted execution of arbitrary code.

Background

The Gnumeric spreadsheet is a versatile application developed as part of the GNOME Office project.

Description

Multiple integer overflow and signedness errors have been reported in the excel_read_HLINK() function in file plugins/excel/ms-excel-read.c when processing XLS HLINK opcodes.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted XLS file, possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Gnumeric users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/gnumeric-1.8.1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-0668 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0668

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-05.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-05.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17671
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17671
Title: USN-604-1 -- gnumeric vulnerability
Description: Thilo Pfennig and Morten Welinder discovered that the XLS spreadsheet handling code in Gnumeric did not correctly calculate needed memory sizes.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-604-1
CVE-2008-0668
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 6.06
Ubuntu 6.10
Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu 7.10
 Product(s): gnumeric
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20233
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20233
Title: DSA-1546-1 gnumeric
Description: Thilo Pfennig and Morten Welinder discovered several integer overflow weaknesses in Gnumeric, a GNOME spreadsheet application. These vulnerabilities could result in the execution of arbitrary code through the opening of a maliciously crafted Excel spreadsheet.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1546-1
CVE-2008-0668
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): gnumeric
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8059
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8059
Title: DSA-1546 gnumeric -- integer overflow
Description: Thilo Pfennig and Morten Welinder discovered several integer overflow weaknesses in Gnumeric, a GNOME spreadsheet application. These vulnerabilities could result in the execution of arbitrary code through the opening of a maliciously crafted Excel spreadsheet.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1546
CVE-2008-0668
 Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): gnumeric
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for gnumeric MDVSA-2008:056 (gnumeric)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2008_056.nasl
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for gnumeric vulnerability USN-604-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_604_1.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for gnumeric FEDORA-2008-1313
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_1313_gnumeric_fc7.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for gnumeric FEDORA-2008-1403
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_1403_gnumeric_fc8.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200802-05 (gnumeric)
File : nvt/glsa_200802_05.nasl
2008-04-21 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1546-1 (gnumeric)
File : nvt/deb_1546_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
42835 Gnumeric plugins/excel/ms-excel-read.c excel_read_HLINK Function XLS HLINK Op...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2008-056.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-07-23 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_gnumeric-5393.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-04-25 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-604-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-04-17 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1546.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-02-14 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200802-05.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-02-11 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-1313.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-02-11 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-1403.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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