# CVE-2018-7436: An issue was discovered in FreeXL before 1.0.5.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-02-23 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in FreeXL before 1.0.5. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in a pointer dereference of the parse_SST function.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00000.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547883
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/spatialite-users/b-d9iB5TDPE
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4129
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-44

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