CVE-2023-38854: Libxls Project Libxls

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in libxlsv.1.6.2 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and cause a denial of service via a crafted XLS file to the transcode_latin1_to_utf8 function in xlstool.c:296.

Affected products

Published 2023-08-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.