CVE-2004-1301

CRITICAL 10.0CVE-2004-1301 · Published 10/01/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2004-1301 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability affecting xlreader (xlreader).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 6.2%, higher than 93.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
xlreader xlreader	`= 0.9`	No fix yet

Description

Buffer overflow in the book_format_sql function in format.c for xlreader 0.9.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel (XLS) file.

References

tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/xlreader.txt · Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18612

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