CVE-2017-2919: Debian Linux

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

An exploitable stack based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the xls_getfcell function of libxls 1.3.4. 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 9.0 only
• Libxls Project Libxls: version 1.3.4 only

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