Gnumeric: Heap overflow in the included PCRE library

Gnumeric: Heap overflow in the included PCRE library Gnumeric is vulnerable to a heap overflow, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code. Gnumeric 2005-09-03 2005-09-03: 01 104010 remote 1.4.3-r2 1.4.3-r2

The Gnumeric spreadsheet is a versatile application developed as part of the GNOME Office project. libpcre is a library providing functions for Perl-compatible regular expressions.

Gnumeric contains a private copy of libpcre which is subject to an integer overflow leading to a heap overflow (see GLSA 200508-17).

An attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted spreadsheet, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Gnumeric.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Gnumeric users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/gnumeric-1.4.3-r2"

CAN-2005-2491 GLSA 200508-17 koon koon formula7