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TI-2008-00636 Aliases CVE-2008-0668GHSA-ff87-x3fm-p744

The excel_read_HLINK function in plugins/excel/ms-excel-read.c in Gnome Office Gnumeric…

Priority MEDIUM 48CWE-189Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
— Not recorded in CVSS 2.0
Attack complexity
Medium
Impact type
Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
Complete · Complete · Complete
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 2.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-189 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.04981 92nd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 3

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*7Running onRed Hat
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*8Running onRed Hat
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnumeric:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*up to 1.7.91VulnerableGNOME
  • cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 7 Running on ·Red Hat
  • cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 8 Running on ·Red Hat
  • cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnumeric:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions up to 1.7.91 Vulnerable ·GNOME

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

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Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2008-0668
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-ff87-x3fm-p744

References

Patch 1

Advisory 7

Other 3

  • TI-2009-00298 Untrusted search path vulnerability in the GObject Python interpreter wrapper in Gnumeric… CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.9
  • TI-2013-05625 Heap-based buffer overflow in the ms_escher_get_data function in… CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 4.3

Sources

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