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Bug 760089 - Null pointer crash in ms-excel-read.c:1480 on a fuzzed xls file
Null pointer crash in ms-excel-read.c:1480 on a fuzzed xls file
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Gnumeric
Classification: Applications
Component: import/export MS Excel (tm)
git master
Other Linux
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: Jody Goldberg
Jody Goldberg
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-01-02 23:14 UTC by jutaky
Modified: 2016-01-02 23:41 UTC
See Also:
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Description jutaky 2016-01-02 23:14:17 UTC 
Git versions of gtk, glib, goffice, gnumeric, libgsf and libxml2.

Test case: http://jutaky.com/fuzzing/gnumeric_case_004-ms-excel-read.c.1480.xls

$ ssconvert gnumeric_case_004-ms-excel-read.c.1480.xls /tmp/out.gnumeric

==8158==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address 0x000000000000 (pc 0x7fe5a1e8c850 bp 0x7ffdf7802750 sp 0x7ffdf7802340 T0)
    #0 0x7fe5a1e8c84f in excel_read_BOUNDSHEET gnumeric/gnumeric/plugins/excel/ms-excel-read.c:1480:24
    #1 0x7fe5a1e8c84f in excel_read_workbook gnumeric/gnumeric/plugins/excel/ms-excel-read.c:7238
    #2 0x7fe5a1e63722 in excel_enc_file_open gnumeric/gnumeric/plugins/excel/boot.c:193:2
    #3 0x7fe5c0e4eec2 in go_plugin_loader_module_func_file_open gnumeric/goffice/goffice/app/go-plugin-loader-module.c:282:3
    #4 0x7fe5c0e57b86 in go_plugin_file_opener_open gnumeric/goffice/goffice/app/go-plugin-service.c:685:2
    #5 0x7fe5c0e5bcdc in go_file_opener_open gnumeric/goffice/goffice/app/file.c:417:2
    #6 0x7fe5c1a5aa70 in workbook_view_new_from_input gnumeric/gnumeric/src/workbook-view.c:1278:3
    #7 0x7fe5c1a5adef in workbook_view_new_from_uri gnumeric/gnumeric/src/workbook-view.c:1337:9
    #8 0x4dd2b5 in convert gnumeric/gnumeric/src/ssconvert.c:715:9
    #9 0x4dc6f4 in main gnumeric/gnumeric/src/ssconvert.c:918:19
    #10 0x7fe5bbac060f in __libc_start_main (/usr/lib/libc.so.6+0x2060f)
    #11 0x41a688 in _start (apps/bin/ssconvert+0x41a688)

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Juha Kylmänen
Comment 1 Morten Welinder 2016-01-02 23:41:30 UTC 
This problem has been fixed in our software repository. The fix will go into the next software release. Once that release is available, you may want to check for a software upgrade provided by your Linux distribution.