CVE-2017-2896: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An exploitable out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the xls_mergedCells 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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Libxls Project Libxls: version 1.4 only

Published 2017-11-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.