CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-46345

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Oct 26, 2023 | Modified: Nov 03, 2023

CVSS 3.x

7.5

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS 2.x

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46345
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

Catdoc v0.95 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the component xls2csv at src/xlsparse.c.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Catdoc	Fossies	0.95 (including)	0.95 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

https://gist.github.com/rycbar77/d747b2c37b544ece30b2353a65ab41f9

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