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CVE-2017-2897 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (r-cran-readxl), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.
An exploitable out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the read_MSAT function of libxls 1.4. A specially crafted XLS file can cause a memory corruption resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can send malicious XLS file to trigger this vulnerability.