PT-2013-6144 · Gnome+1 · Gnumeric+1

Published 2013-11-29 · Updated 2016-12-31 · CVE-2013-6836

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Gnumeric versions prior to 1.12.9

Description A heap-based buffer overflow issue exists in the ms escher get data function, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by providing a crafted xls file with a malicious length value.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.12.9, update to version 1.12.9 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2013-1214

CVE-2013-6836

MGASA-2014-0086

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Gnumeric

References · 20

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712772 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnumeric/commit/?id=b5480b69345b3c6d56ee0ed9c9e9880bb2a08cdc · Exploit
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0086.html · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00018.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6836 · Vendor Advisory
• https://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/announcements/1.12/gnumeric-1.12.9.shtml · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-6836 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6836 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-6836 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0086 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-6836 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2013-1214 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6836 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6836 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-6836 · Vendor Advisory